Finally On Track For A Comprehensive Support Scheme For Renewable Energy?

Current status
Albania has one of the highest percentages of electricity produced from renewable energy sources (RES) in its electricity mix – more than 95 % of electricity generated in Albania comes from hydropower generation. In spite of that (or maybe because of that), Albania has not had a comprehensive policy on the support of RES in place to date.

Albania had adopted legislation for the promotion of RES facilities in 2013. Under this legislation, the main promotion measure consisted of the implementation of a feed-in tariff system for electricity generated from RES projects with an installed capacity not exceeding 15 MW. Such facilities, in theory, also have right to priority access to the grid. However, this legislation was not applied in practice due to absence of secondary legislation. The only exception relates to small hydropower facilities. Thus, practically, there is no support scheme in place in Albania for other RES sources, such as solar or wind