N1BOS — broadcast
20260810 083000 UTC
320 transcript segments
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking
Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive.
Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record.

[00:00:00] megawatts of electricity, production capacities for electricity,
[00:00:04] of which 2.00 MW in hydro, 2.
[00:00:07] MW in thermal, but production in thermal power plants
[00:00:11] was 60 to 70%, because they
[00:00:14] work more hours than hydroelectric power plants, mm-hmm,
[00:00:18] depending on the hydrological year, what it's like, what the
[00:00:21] precipitation is, uh uh, so that went up to
[00:00:25] 70% from thermal power plants, in good hydrologies,
[00:00:28] 50 something. Mm-hmm, after
[00:00:31] the war, the private sector built
[00:00:34] 1600 MW of new capacities, 300
[00:00:38] MW of thermal power plants in Stanari,
[00:00:41] then over 900 MW of solar power plants
[00:00:44] on the transmission and distribution
[00:00:47] grid, about 300 MW
[00:00:50] of wind farms and 100 MW of small
[00:00:53] hydropower plants, so most of the solar are 900 MW,
[00:00:57] most of it, well, privately owned.
[00:01:01] Built, and the state public sector, I mean, the electric power companies
[00:01:04] did not build a single kW of
[00:01:07] solar energy, but only production of existing and
[00:01:11] consumption of existing capacities and work on existing capacities, there are
[00:01:14] also, for example, wind farms, uh
[00:01:17] the electric power company built Podveležje, the electric power company in Mostar
[00:01:21] built Mesihovina and the electric power company in Mostar
[00:01:24] built two hydroelectric power plants, Mostarsko Blato and
[00:01:27] Tihaljina, these other capacities. They were not, even though they were
[00:01:31] projected, even though all the preconditions for building them exist, they
[00:01:35] are still not being built today. After all, what does that
[00:01:37] mean, Mr. Bičakčić, in conditions when we are moving towards solving dirty
[00:01:41] energy, when we will pay penalties for CO2, when our
[00:01:45] thermal power plants are being shut down, uh, did we
[00:01:49] start shutting down something from which we get energy
[00:01:52] too early? Ah, we have completely given up
[00:01:56] on thermal power plants, i.e.,
[00:01:59] on the mines in the area that provide coal, so that
[00:02:02] production from four years ago has been reduced from 6 million
[00:02:06] tons to 3 million tons and
[00:02:09] lower. We will not achieve production of 3
[00:02:13] million tons this year in the mines in the Federation. What does that mean?
[00:02:16] And it means that the electric power company in Sarajevo
[00:02:20] is an importer of electricity and one terawatt,
[00:02:23] that's a million kilowatts,
[00:02:26] uh, a thousand - GWh of electricity is imported
[00:02:30] annually, the Sarajevo electric power company, the Sarajevo
[00:02:33] electric power company imports 500,000 from Trebinje,
[00:02:37] the Mostar electric power company is approximately
[00:02:40] balanced at zero, so
[00:02:43] we are now importers from exporters, we have become importers
[00:02:47] of electricity, absolutely, that, that is a phenomenon that
[00:02:51] happened, although when we look at Bosnia and Herzegovina as
[00:02:54] a whole with the private sector, we are still
[00:02:57] exporters of electricity, it's one of the few in the
[00:03:01] Southeast Balkans, because these new
[00:03:05] facilities, which all go for export, are producing, although
[00:03:08] export is difficult, but for example, on Friday, prices on
[00:03:12] the stock exchange for daily uh purchase were
[00:03:15] 230 euros per megawatt, that is four
[00:03:19] times more than standard, and if
[00:03:22] you sell it in the evening when solar power plants
[00:03:25] are shut down, then the price goes up to 500 euros per
[00:03:28] megawatt, that's... um, that's a jump, the stock exchange
[00:03:32] reacts immediately and you have to buy
[00:03:35] expensive electricity which practically
[00:03:39] doesn't exist, not enough. At what prices do we
[00:03:42] buy when we import? Look at the Sarajevo and Trebinje electric power companies, if you
[00:03:45] say that, so that we can clarify for
[00:03:48] our viewers, that energy that we sell at
[00:03:52] high prices is sold by private companies, i.e.,
[00:03:55] those made on their own initiative, those 1600 MWh that they
[00:03:58] made since the war. And
[00:04:02] actually, uh the public sector, which has not built these
[00:04:06] installed capacities, imports for the needs of its
[00:04:09] citizens of Sarajevo, Trebinje, through these
[00:04:12] electric power companies, at what price then? I hope
[00:04:16] that they realized that import before these drastic
[00:04:19] jumps on the stock market, in
[00:04:22] the first half of the year, that price on the stock market was from 50 to
[00:04:25] 80 euros per megawatt, it was relatively
[00:04:29] good. And in those circumstances, it could be profitable,
[00:04:33] today, whoever is forced to import, he will
[00:04:37] pay dearly for it, I believe that
[00:04:40] they can still produce
[00:04:43] that amount of electricity today,
[00:04:46] they can also buy all
[00:04:50] the offered quantities that
[00:04:53] the private sector offers them, but
[00:04:56] especially the electric power company in Sarajevo for
[00:04:59] this... year rejected small
[00:05:02] producers with the explanation that
[00:05:05] it was a complicated contract, that it was not
[00:05:08] profitable for them, and they only took some large producers
[00:05:12] with whom... it is easier and simpler for them to work, and
[00:05:15] they refused to buy energy that was offered to them at
[00:05:19] the doorstep at prices that are lower than market prices, which are
[00:05:22] produced in the country, which are produced in the country. This is a
[00:05:26] catastrophic policy, this is responsibility, someone once
[00:05:30] asked me,
[00:05:31] uh,
[00:05:34] "is that even possible?" Well, you see it's possible. Who, Mr.
[00:05:38] Bičakčić, based on your long-standing professional experience and looking
[00:05:42] at these... trends now, who will pay
[00:05:45] the highest price, first of the open market, second
[00:05:48] of that import of electricity, where could
[00:05:52] these prices go and how likely is it that social peace
[00:05:55] will be able to be bought in the future, as has been done
[00:05:59] until now, where is the limit when the public
[00:06:02] sector will no longer be able to buy social peace, but we will
[00:06:06] go according to market prices to acquire energy and citizens will
[00:06:09] pay for energy? That should have been done
[00:06:13] a long time ago. It was moving in that direction, but
[00:06:16] it was quickly abandoned, because
[00:06:19] it requires a responsible approach, responsible work, and responsible
[00:06:23] management. People do not want to manage responsibly, they
[00:06:26] want to be sure that they will not make a mistake, they will not
[00:06:30] make a mistake if they do nothing, that's what it comes down to, and where has
[00:06:34] that led us, that story? Well, it has led us to the point that
[00:06:37] the electric power company in Sarajevo will show this
[00:06:41] year several hundred million
[00:06:44] in losses, that it has uncollected receivables
[00:06:47] that are measured in billions, billions. Who are the biggest
[00:06:51] debtors? Mm-hmm, who are the biggest debtors? And they are not
[00:06:54] from the highest debtors are
[00:06:58] again the public sector, there cannot
[00:07:01] be
[00:07:04] a consumer who does not pay for electricity
[00:07:07] for two months, he must be disconnected and
[00:07:11] resolve that issue in the future, otherwise
[00:07:14] the substance is eaten which has already been largely consumed
[00:07:17] in a way that coal was paid
[00:07:21] in advance but was never delivered, and that on
[00:07:24] that basis there is that dubious situation that the government
[00:07:28] needs to resolve, and coal purchases are below market prices where the mines
[00:07:31] are brought into a situation where they are not profitable, that pricing relationship also needs to be regulated
[00:07:35] in Bosnia and Herzegovina in such a way that every
[00:07:39] kilowatt-hour of uh every
[00:07:41] ton of coal delivered to
[00:07:45] thermal power plants is paid at market prices, and that electricity is also sold at
[00:07:49] market prices. This cut, whoever takes it on,
[00:07:52] someone will have to, and as far as I
[00:07:55] can see, they are leaving it for the new government, in addition to a series
[00:07:58] of other collective dubious issues, they have
[00:08:01] that and this is why I believe
[00:08:05] that they will move in that direction, but now it's a good time when the price
[00:08:08] is 230 euros per megawatt, so it pays off many times over.
[00:08:12] Additional production can be organized and
[00:08:16] encouraged in some way, but no one is going in that direction. Who
[00:08:20] will deal with the miners, how will they deal with those people who
[00:08:24] in the Raspotočje pit, nine of them refuse to
[00:08:27] come out, uh their
[00:08:30] lives are threatened, in fact, people
[00:08:33] cannot function on a daily basis, they are not receiving their
[00:08:37] salary, three remaining salaries, or rather, three overdue salaries, have not
[00:08:40] been paid to them. They were
[00:08:42] promised uh a pension and
[00:08:46] care under quotes, uh
[00:08:49] and severance pay also has not been honored, and how
[00:08:53] realistic is it that anyone will honor that plan that these people need
[00:08:56] to be retrained, that they still have something to give in their
[00:08:59] working life? Well, the question
[00:09:03] of retirement or, for example,
[00:09:07] the health care of miners are some priority issues
[00:09:10] that need to be resolved. So that people can simply
[00:09:14] exist, and all further
[00:09:17] and that, that, that issue facing the
[00:09:20] government, the government has possibilities, ways
[00:09:23] to make certain
[00:09:26] moves to calm the situation,
[00:09:30] and therefore, uh
[00:09:33] but future coal production must be market-based
[00:09:37] and that needs to be set up immediately
[00:09:41] and then clean up the accounts. Move forward, without that
[00:09:44] it won't work, it won't end well, and
[00:09:48] chaos will ensue, some may even manage well,
[00:09:52] but the vast majority will indeed be harmed.
[00:09:55] Yes, uh, when you talk about plans for
[00:09:58] mines and what awaits us, 2050 is that ultimate deadline,
[00:10:02] or rather, the limit when CO2 emissions should be completely
[00:10:06] stopped. That's right, although we then have
[00:10:08] 2026, Mr. Bičakčić,
[00:10:12] have we given up too early, due to our
[00:10:16] own lack of ideas, on some of
[00:10:19] the largest energy producers in Bosnia? You are absolutely
[00:10:21] right. In 25 years, every
[00:10:25] piece of machinery can be paid off. Machinery
[00:10:29] digs coal and hides and
[00:10:31] removes overburden. We used to be able to do that with
[00:10:35] Alija Sirotanović's shovels, today we can't do it with
[00:10:39] the most modern excavators in the world. It just needs to be
[00:10:42] done in an organized way and things will
[00:10:45] start moving. We have coal, but we don't
[00:10:48] mine it. So, there are no reserves, it's true there's
[00:10:52] overburden now, we need to prepare for that. But
[00:10:55] with an organized and honest approach, it can be quickly
[00:10:59] and easily resolved. After all, by 2050, we will
[00:11:03] have a problem with heating in Tuzla
[00:11:07] because those
[00:11:09] blocks are combined and they heat
[00:11:13] a large number of residents. In fact, that
[00:11:16] system is being expanded and an alternative needs to be found. Are these
[00:11:20] gas power plants that will come as
[00:11:24] a new energy source? Or are they perhaps even modular
[00:11:27] nuclear reactors? We need to seriously work on this now and
[00:11:30] prepare these alternatives so that we are ready to
[00:11:34] welcome the year 2050.
[00:11:37] In addition, if it's a combined cycle, then the
[00:11:40] efficiency of that uh use is
[00:11:44] 70%. If it's only electricity production, it's
[00:11:47] a maximum of 40%.
[00:11:50] So, we have justifications before the European
[00:11:53] energy community for such things, but when I say we
[00:11:56] are doing that transition, so
[00:11:59] it must, that's why we are now exposed to this CBAM
[00:12:03] additional taxes on electricity exports,
[00:12:07] that again affects this private sector and exports and
[00:12:10] success, we must create an ETS system
[00:12:14] in the domestic system, we tax it so that it goes into
[00:12:17] the revenue of our budget, so that it doesn't go into
[00:12:20] the European budget, and no one forbids us from doing that immediately.
[00:12:23] We are the only country that has not created
[00:12:27] a stock exchange, we need an agency that will
[00:12:30] certify green energy, because today all energy from Bosnia and
[00:12:33] Herzegovina we pay taxed as
[00:12:36] if it were a mix with a thermal power plant. Those who
[00:12:40] produce from sun, wind, water, they can get a green
[00:12:44] certificate and that
[00:12:47] without exporting immediately, but
[00:12:50] now there is a need for energy on the stock market, so now people are looking the other
[00:12:54] way. Looking the other way, we have launched
[00:12:57] an activity, it has been acknowledged that this
[00:13:00] CBAM will be significantly softened and that they
[00:13:04] will take into account the real mix that currently exists in Bosnia and
[00:13:07] Herzegovina, where the share of thermal power plant production
[00:13:10] has decreased, it has decreased due to a lack of coal, due to
[00:13:14] malfunctions and due to the entry
[00:13:16] of these uh uh renewable
[00:13:19] producers. Can we get, can we get into a situation, here, mm,
[00:13:23] where we are reliant on larger electricity producers so that
[00:13:26] somehow we bring ourselves into
[00:13:29] a position like the one Hungary has brought its
[00:13:32] citizens into, relying on nuclear reactors,
[00:13:36] that they have to make restrictions so that
[00:13:39] a period that is very uncertain uh can be
[00:13:43] colloquially speaking, overcome? Because uh
[00:13:45] if
[00:13:48] if we run out of sufficient electricity production during
[00:13:52] energy, during droughts such as extreme
[00:13:55] droughts, and at the same time we are already getting rid
[00:13:58] of thermal power plants, what is left for us? How likely is it that in
[00:14:02] the future we will come to a situation where we do not have
[00:14:06] uh good enough diversification that can drive, we must take
[00:14:10] into account that electricity consumption is growing, a large
[00:14:13] number of air conditioners are being massively installed today, heat
[00:14:17] pumps are being installed and everything that has an electric motor
[00:14:20] drive, this reflects
[00:14:24] an increase in lower electricity consumption
[00:14:27] that needs to be met with new
[00:14:30] production, and for these reasons there will be these
[00:14:34] restrictions, for now, thanks, I say, uh, first
[00:14:37] and foremost, to the good hydrology this year,
[00:14:41] it's true there isn't any now but that's these two months, who knows what
[00:14:44] autumn will be like, but still, I ask you about extreme droughts,
[00:14:48] our reservoirs are full when you drive towards
[00:14:51] Mostar, you drive past full ones, when you see that the
[00:14:55] reservoirs are rapidly emptying, you will see that it means that
[00:14:58] a crisis is coming, that this next measure is when
[00:15:02] we use up those reservoirs, the next measure is reductions,
[00:15:06] I hope that won't happen, there's
[00:15:09] no real reason for it to happen, but
[00:15:12] if you do nothing, it's inevitable. After
[00:15:15] all, already for the third quarter, the price of gas is
[00:15:19] 14% higher, and it's announced to be even higher in the autumn, so
[00:15:22] even those who were still using
[00:15:26] gas are switching to electricity in the meantime,
[00:15:29] which is again a jump in electricity consumption,
[00:15:32] there is no new production
[00:15:35] and... the connection of these
[00:15:39] private producers is very slow and difficult,
[00:15:41] the electric power companies treat them as
[00:15:45] some kind of competition, but that has
[00:15:48] proven to be completely wrong, they could
[00:15:51] now connect much faster and more, because people
[00:15:55] have been waiting for years, not months, years, what
[00:15:58] can be done immediately, not only companies and larger electricity producers
[00:16:02] who are outside the public sector, but
[00:16:04] individuals,
[00:16:06] you saw how much we waited for everyone. That's right, for for some small solar panels that could
[00:16:09] provide electricity, they haven't even
[00:16:13] started, and the law from 23 years
[00:16:17] ago exists, that's right, we are absolutely
[00:20:46] skip that, Minela, we also saw shameful
[00:20:50] scenes at the match in Banja Luka at the city stadium, the name
[00:20:53] and surname of the convicted war criminal Ratko
[00:20:57] Mladić were chanted, after which the match was interrupted for half an hour, the stand
[00:21:00] where the most passionate fans of Borac were had to
[00:21:04] be emptied, referee Admir Musić warned,
[00:21:07] that is, the people who were involved in uh
[00:21:11] the organization of the refereeing at that match and where they were dispensing justice,
[00:21:14] warned that if it continued the match would be registered
[00:21:18] 3:0 in favor.
[00:21:20] Indeed, these are scenes that should
[00:21:24] not happen at sports events, and
[00:21:28] but, unfortunately, we can talk as much as we want, but sport
[00:21:31] is, that is, politics is deeply incorporated into sport. Here,
[00:21:35] there is a platform for these ugly
[00:21:38] scenes and ugly images to be sent. 30 years after the war has passed,
[00:21:42] we are still talking about something that is, as clear as
[00:21:45] day, something that should not be re-examined. Uh
[00:21:48] we continue to witness uh such things. One might even unfairly say that it's not
[00:21:52] politics indoctrinated, but the indoctrination of evil
[00:21:55] hatred, well, yes, certainly absolutely the ugliest form of
[00:21:58] nationalism that exists, here on the field
[00:22:02] it is, and I hope that we will not talk about these topics,
[00:22:06] because this is still football, here goals are counted,
[00:22:09] points are counted, so in the end, it is really
[00:22:13] ugly when you represent a country and when you deny
[00:22:16] international judgments, so this is in a way a denial, right... an attempt
[00:22:20] to deny, of course, it can never be denied and international
[00:22:23] judgments and everything that, unfortunately, we have been talking about
[00:22:27] for 30 years after the war, we know that sport, what's worst, some