The Energy Minister says electricity prices on the exchanges today are at times even zero euros per megawatt-hour. Because of that, she argues, changes to the block tariffs could be considered.

At the same time, the head of the Energy Regulatory Commission is urging citizens to invest, instead of in apartments, in shares for building Čebren and other energy projects.

But while some talk about cheap electricity and others about new investments, the Electricity Distribution plans for 2027 state that covering network losses will require around 764,000 MWh of electricity, which at a price of 100 euros per megawatt-hour amounts to roughly 4.8 billion denars, or over 76 million euros a year.

That raises a few simple questions.

If electricity is so cheap it's at times worth zero euros, why do citizens still pay block tariffs introduced back when electricity reached as much as 1,000 euros per megawatt-hour?

If energy is so profitable that citizens should invest in dams and power plants, why are billions of denars planned every year at the same time to cover network losses?

And most importantly, before we ask citizens to invest in new projects, shouldn't someone finally answer where the billions of denars spent on losses every year disappear to?

In a single sentence, the state tells us that electricity is cheap, that we should invest in new power plants, and that we'll spend billions of denars on losses.

There's only one question: