Profile

Full name: A Joint Stock Company for Electricity Transmission and Power System Control
Abbreviated name: AD MEPSO
Form of organization: A joint stock company in state ownership
Address: bb Orce Nikolov, 1000 Skopje
Phone no: + 389 (0)2 3149 692
Fax no: + 389 (0) 2 3111 160
Judicial registration: 30120080002736
Capital: 3.059.393.000 Denars
Ownership structure: fully state owned
Transaction account: NLB Tutunska bank 210059337810365;Ohridska bank 530010100845304
Tax no: 4030004529600
ID no: 5933781
Web site: www.mepso.com.mk
e-mail: mepso@mepso.com.mk
General director: Vladimir Zdravev, B. SC. Mech. Eng.,
Members of Board of Directors: Vladimir Zdravev, Vesna Jovanovska, Dobrila Stefanoska, Drago Sajnoski, Mihail Panovski, Zoran Todorovski

Background

AD MEPSO (the Macedonian Electricity Transmission System Operator) is a company in full state ownership, established in 2005 after the transformation of the Electric Power Company of Macedonia. The MEPSO core activity is electricity transmission through the high voltage grid and electric energy flow on regular and duly bases to its big industrial customers such as (Bucim, OKTA, Maksteel, USJE Silmak, Feni Industry) and to the low voltage grid of EVN Macedonia.

The two key MEPSO activities are electricity transmission and power system control. MEPSO is in charge of electricity transmission on regular basis from the Macedonian border to the distribution network of EVN ESM, or to the listed big industrial consumers. MEPSO also organizes and dispatches the transit of electricity through Macedonia and takes care of the power system balancing.

To perform its activity AD MEPSO has been granted three licenses by the Energy Regulatory Commission with a validity time of 35 years until 2040. The first license relates to doing energy activity of electricity transmission. The second license is for doing energy activity in terms of organizing and managing the electricity market and the third license is doing the energy activity in terms of power system control.

For its business AD MEPSO charges an electricity transmission fee set by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) based on the AD MEPSO expenses. This means that AD MEPSO is not a profitably-oriented company but it provides services to citizens and Macedonian economy.

MEPSO has in its ownership the high voltage transmission grid, substations for conversion of voltage from 400 to 110 kV.The transmission lines of 2.092 km in total length, substations with 148 transformers of 6.417 (MVA) installed power are the ownership of MEPSO. MEPSO employs more than 400 employees.

To satisfy its needs, MEPSO is divided into two subsidiaries and few offices that service the subsidiaries. The first subsidiary is the Operator of Electric Power System and its task is to control the system and provide a harmonized relation between the consumers and electricity generators (local generation and import).

The second subsidiary is the Operator of Transmission Grid and its task is to take care of the transmission lines, substations and transformers and other installations to be in sound operating condition enabling regular and duly electricity flow.