Serbian President Alexander Vucic says the energy deal with Kosovo is towards completion.
"Today we have had negotiations with the Turkish side, with the KEDS, for the presence in northern Kosovo. This is why we agreed and spree that there is only one technical side left, to have good results in the following days," Vucic said.
The Kosovar Electricity Distribution Company did not deny or claim whether they had held conversations with Serbia on the issue, but said any agreement reached would improve the situation in northern Kosovo.
The electricity issue in the north of the country has been the subject of talks between Kosovo and Serbia since the start of dialogue.
"Any agreement reached would change the situation for the better," KEDS spokesman Victor Buzhala told Free Europe Radio.
The Kosovar Electricity Distribution Company (KEDS) from 2013 is under the management of the Turkish consortium "Chalik-Limak". KEDS has the electricity distribution franchise throughout Kosovo territory, manages and maintains assets on the ground, REL writes.
Within the framework of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, which takes place with European Union mediation, both sides had reached an energy agreement in 2013. But it has not been implemented so far.
Currently, Serbian citizens living in northern Kosovo do not pay for the energy spent. According to the System Operator, Transmission and Electricity Market in Kosovo (KOSTT) losses from energy bills in the north for 2021 alone have reached the sum of 40m euros.
From 1999 to 2017, debt for northern Kosovo paid kosovo citizens from municipalities south of Ibrit. But in 2017, such a practice suspended the Court of Appeal, after it was assessed that such a thing was illegal. Later, this decision was also confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.
Energy bills spent in northern Kosovo pay KOSTT, the Kosovo government said.