DISCUSSES YUGOSLAV ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAM

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• Publication Date: June 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
Yngosla~~ic.
Economic -Power
DATE OF
INFORMATION 19?+9
NOW
DATE.:''IS;. t-V Jun 1950
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PUBLISHED
Bel6rade
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DATE
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17 Aug 1949
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SOURCE Bcrba, ido 195, 1949
DISCUSSES YUGOS~aV ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAM
According to the latest calculations of experts, hydroelectric power
plants with a capacity of 12 million kilowatts could be built on Yugoslav
rivers. They could produce 50 billion kilowatt-hours of power per year.
This would be er._uivalent to the worl: done by 168 million people.
In 1930, Yugoslavia produced 750 million kilowatt-hours of electricity
and in 19110 produced 1,100,000,000 kilowatt-hours, which is an increase of
46.7 percent. '19ie capacity of all the power plants in prewar Yugoslavia
amounted to ~-30,000 kilowatts; of this total, hydroelectric power plants
alone had a c~:paci~y of 1116,000 kilowatts. Only 28.6 percent of the exist-
ing power plants were exploited because the plants were not connected by
high-teasion power lines.
In 1930, Yugoslavia produced only 71 kilowatt-hours of elec?ricity per
capita, In 1940, only 71 kilowatt-hours of power were consumed per capita.
According to the Fixst Five-Year P1an,.Yugoslavia is scheduled to pro-
duce 4,350,000,000 kilowatt-hours of power by the end of 1951., or 272 kilo-
watt-hours per capita per year.
The construction of 43 hydroelectric power plants and 14 thermal power
plants, which was cc :led for by the Five-Year Plan, has already begun. Twenty
of these plants will have a capacity oP over 100 million kilowatts'of power
per year each.
The power-production plan for the first 22 years of the-Five-Year Plan
was sr_-?passed by 25.3 percent, and 38.5 ~,ercent of the total-Five-Rear Plan
was completed, During the first haJ~ of the Five-Yesr Plan, nine large and
small power plants were constructed.and put into Operation, and in 1949, nine
additional plants will be in operation. The Mariborski Otok polder plant, like?
the Vlasenica power plant, will produce 350 million kilowatt-hours of power
per ycar when all its units are in operation.
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Thus fax, 800 kilometers bf 110-kilovolt high-tension power lines Y.ave
been put into nperntion, while in 1949, 5~ kilometers more *~ill be p~~t into
operation. By the end of 1848; 1,200 kilometers of 35-kilovolt high-tension
power lines were put into operation,. while in 1949, an additional J., 200 kilo-
meters will be put into operation.
If the production of power per capita in Montenegro is 1939 is taken as
100, the index will be 6,000 is 1951, in Macedonia it will be 1,380, and in
Dosnia and Herzegovina it will be 700.
The Jablanica ll produc?'900 million kilowatt hours
of power per year With that amount of power, 450 mil- 50X1- H U M
The Rama Power P1 + P 11 produce 700 million kilowatt-
hours of power per year The Mavrovo power plants will 50X1- H U M
have a capacity of.l(8, owa?ts an produce 343 million kilowatt-
hours of power per ;ear.
The four unite of the Vlasina River Power Pleat will produce a total of
190 million kilowatt-hours of power per year.?
In 1947, Yugoslavia produced 1,500,000,000 kilowatt-hours oP power, while
only 1,200,000,000 were called for by the plan; in 1948, 2~billion while only
1,500,000,000 were called for; and in the first half of 1949, 1,150,000,000 of
the 2,300,000,000 projected for all oY 1948, while only 2 billion were called
for in the first half of 1849. In 1950, the plan ca11.s for 3 billion and in
1951 for 4,350,000,000 kilowatt-hours of power.
In 1939, Yugoslavia had no 110-kilovolt high-tension~povrer?lines, but in
1947 there were 100 kilometers; in 1948, 600 kilometers, ahd:in 1949, 1,100
kilometers. In 1950, 1,800 kilometers of high=tension power lines are called.
for by the Five-Year Plan; while in 1951, 2,700 kilometers?a,re called for by
the Five-Year Plan.
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