EVN AD Skopje ( mk, ЕВН АД Скопје) is a power distribution and supply company in

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

. It was split in 2005 from former state integrated power company ESM and bought in 2006 by

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n-based

EVN Group EVN Group is an Austrian-based producer and transporter of electricity, one of the largest in Europe having over three million customers in 14 countries. The company also operates in water treatment, natural gas supply and waste management bus ...

.EVN originally stands for ' (German for "Lower Austria energie supply"). The company has about 800 000 electricity meters in the country.

History

In 2005, the former state monopoly ESM ('' []'', litt. ''Electricity of Macedonia'') was split in three companies: * A distribution and supply company, initially called ESM AD, sold in 2006 to Austrian

and renamed as EVN Macedonia ('), rebranded in 2019 as EVN AD Skopje ('). * A state-owned power-producing company, initially called ELEM ('' []'', litt. ''Power plants of Macedonia''), in charge of the country's power plants. The company was renamed in 2019 as ESM (Elektrani na Severna Makedonija, ', litt. ''Power plants of North Macedonia'') after the country itself changed its name to North Macedonia, reverting to the initialism used between 1990 and 2006. * A state-owned transmission system operator MEPSO

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