Albania suffered an “almost total” power cut yesterday as excess electricity imports from Serbia and Montenegro overloaded local circuits, a Greek official said. “For some reason, Albania’s northern imports increased and the country’s weak interconnections there couldn’t handle the load,” Aristidis Tassoulis, network management director at Greek grid operator DESMIE, said by telephone. A spokeswoman for Albanian Power Corp who declined to be identified confirmed the cut and said power had now been restored. Albania yesterday sought bids to build two electricity plants with a combined installed capacity of as much as 270 megawatts. Government-controlled Albanian Power, or KESH, requested applications by the end of this month for a diesel-powered plant in the city of Durres to add as much as 200 megawatts. The Economy Ministry also invited bids for a water-powered plant of as much as 70 megawatts.