Efficiency and effectiveness of the operation, development and competitiveness of MEP 'Oslomej'

• Author: Imer Zenku
• Position: ELEM JSC ? Skopje, Subsidiary MEP 'Oslomej' ? Kicevo
• Pages: 72-82

Vol. 1 No. 1

January 2017

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2519-1284

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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E ciency and e ectiveness of the operation, development and

competitiveness of MEP “Oslomej”

Imer Zenku

ELEM JSC – Skopje, Subsidiary MEP “Oslomej” – Kicevo

Abstract

Electricity production represents an important economic activity, which is not in the phase

of maturity, nor decline, but has a rather promising development future and is the most

important factor for the socioeconomic development of a country.

Therefore, the subject to be elaborated in this paper is very much up to date due to the fact that

it includes the essential aspects related to electricity, and in this context, the a ention will be

focused on the detailed and practical processing of selected data concerning the management

of production, human resources and the price of produced electricity per generator in Thermo

power plant (TPP) “Oslomej”, as well as the various activities related to more successful

operation and production increase.

The analysis in this paper focuses and aims to show the importance and infl uence of these

aspects on the management of the industrial plant, as well as improvement of its e ectiveness

and e ciency of operation and development. All of this will have an important role and direct

impact on the creation and increase of the organizational competitiveness, which is still not

present because of the regulated production capacities, but is expected a er full liberalization

of the electricity market in the Republic of Macedonia.

Keywords: e ciency, e ectiveness, development, competitiveness, electricity.

Introduction

An important segment for the development of the economy of each country is of

course the sector of electricity production together with its production facilities. In this

sense, the Mining and energy plant (MEP) Oslomej as the second largest production

facility part of ELEM JSC, is very important for the electric energy system as a whole,

in terms of employment and economic development of the municipality, the region

and the country. The plant has an installed capacity of 125 MW, and produces about

10% of the electricity in the Republic of Macedonia. The total electricity production

for the period 1980-2015 amounts to 17,046,099 [MWh], which represents 85.4%

of its total planned production of 19,968,172 [MWh], reaching an average annual

production of 473,503 [MWh].

Taking into consideration all of the above, as well as the need for an increase in

electricity production in the country in general, related to ELEM JSC, and especially

in MEP Oslomej, the purpose of this paper is to show the current operation of MEP

Oslomej and the possibilities for improvement of the e ciency and e ectiveness

of the future operation and development of the plant. This includes preparation

and modifi cation of the industrial plant to operate in conditions needed in order

to accomplish and sustain competitive advantage in a fully liberalized electricity