YUGOSLAV FUEL, POWER POTENTIALITIES GREAT

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• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
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• Publication Date: December 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFICENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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Economic - Power, fuel
Daily newspapers
Yugoslavia
7, 12 Nov 1950
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YUGOSLAV FUEL, POWER POTENTIALITIES GREAT
COAL RESERVES ESTIMATED AT 12 BILLION TONS -- Skopl,je, Nova Makedonija, 12 Nov 50
Hydroelectric power plants with a total capacity of 12 million kilowatts
could be built on Yugoslav rivers. Their yearly production would amount to over
40 billion kilowatt-hours, which is 40 times more than the total production of
prewar Yugoslavia. These plants would replace the work of 180 million people.
There are huge coal deposits in Yugoslavia which could facilitate the build-
ing of large thermal power plants. Yugoslav coal reserves of medium calorific
value are estimated at 12 billion tons. These reserves are considered to be suf-
ficient to fulfill Yugoslav needs for 700 years, provided Yugoslavia uses the
same amount of coal during those years as is scheduled for 1951. Taking the in-
dustrialization during futu_*e Five-Year Plans into consideration, the coal re-
serves will be sufficient only for the next 300 years.
The present Five-Year Plan calls for the building of 43 hydroelectric power
plants, 14 thermal power plants, 2,700 kilometers of high tension power lines,
7,000 kilometers of low-tension power lines, and 340 substations.
By the end of this year or at the beginning of next year, the following hy-
droelectric power plants will begin production: the plant at 0~al,j near Karlo-
vac on the Kupa?Rive~ the plant at Peaocani near Ohrid, the plant at Moste in
Slovenia, the plant at Slap Zete in Montenegro, apart of the plant at Vinodol in
Gorski Kotar, and the plans on the Kravica and Sana rivers in Bosnia and Herze-
govina. By the end of this year, Yugoslavia will produce 63.8 percent of the
power called for by the Five-Year Plan.
In 1949, 28 kilowatts of power were produced per capita in Macedonia. If
the Five-Year Plan for Macedonia is fulfilled, 178 kilowatts of 'power will be
produced per capita in the republic. Thus far over 365 kilometers of power lines
have been erected in Macedonia.
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Since the liberation, ten power plz.~ts have been erected in Montenegro,
and by the end of this year ~4 power lines amounting to 230 kilometers will be
erected in that republic. Twenty substations have been built thus far in Mon-
tenegro and 18 more are scheduled to be completed by the end of this year.
The power production in Bosnia end Herzegovina in 1950 will be 225 per-
cent greater than in 1947.
In 1939, 43 kilowatt-hours of power per capita were produced in Serbia;
81.5 kilowa+t-hours were produced in 1949 and 127 kilowatt-hours in 1950. One
hundred fifty six kilowatt-hours will be produced in 1951, provided the Five-
Year Plan is fulfilled. This year, 1,260 kilometers of power lines and 41 sub-
stations will be completed in Serbia.
Ry the end of ?his year, 570 million kilowatt-hours will be produced in
Croatia, or 233 kilowatt-hours per capita.
This yesr's power production in Slovenia will be 760 kilowatt-hours per
capita.
The four hydroelectric power plants on the Vlasina River will produce 190
kilowatt-hours per year. The "Drina II1" Power Plant, which is being built
near. Zvornik, ill produce 400 million kilowatt-hours of power per year. The
power plant? wi~1 supply power to West Serbia, East Bosnia, and the Vojvodina.
The power-plant system on the Vrbas and Pliva rivers will produce 300 million
kilowatt-hours of power per year. By ~?uly 1951, the hydroelectric power plant
at Vuzenica on the Drava River will begin operation.
By the end of 1951, 12 hydroelectric power plants will begin operation in
Yugoslavia as well ae two generator units of the thermal power plant at Veliki
Kostolsc, the new plant at Zrenjanin, and the expanded plant at Zenica.
Fourteen thermal plants will be built in Yugoslav coal basins, such ae the
Kakanj, Kolubara, Sostanj, Lukavac, Kostolac, and Konjscina basins. These 14
plants will produce 1,150,000,000 kilowatt-hours per year.
PETROLEUM FIELDS FLOODED -- Ljubljana, Slovenski Porocevalec, 7 Nov 50
Ledava Creek in t?he Prekmurje flooded several hundred hectares of land on
4 November 1950. The floods are especially severe at Doljna Lendava, where the
petroleum fields are endangered.
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