Public Utility Systems in North Macedonia

Abstract

This chapter deals with a topic that has been publicly debated in the North Macedonia in the last few years. The public utility companies are constantly in debt and with consistently poor quality of services. Hence, the main focus of the public debate is how to identify the causes of the persistent poor situation and how to overcome these problems facing the public utility systems. The primary aim of this chapter is to give an overview of the state in which public utility systems operate. Also, this chapter gives an overview of the importance of the institutional environment and decentralization and their impact on public utilities systems. At the end of the chapter, the sustainability of public utility companies and the financing of utility services and covering costs are presented.