Despite the problems and drawbacks of the last period, the adoption of the Law on Energy Sector in April 2015, opened a new era in the improvement of the Renewable Energy Law and the adoption of measures necessary (NREAP). Indeed, a National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) required for setting out the necessary measures to reach the target of 38% has been already presented to the Energy Community Secretariat in December 2014. Then the draft is currently in its last revision stage at the Ministry of Energy and Industry (MEI).
Thus, for the period 2012-2030, it can refer to the NREAP projections and the most recent studies: here in this brief presentation chosen in particular the Support for Low-Emission Development in South East Europe – SLED. The Sled assessments, based for modelling up to period 2020 itself to the NREAP and for the rest to a study of the USAID Assessment of Energy Developments in Albania 2015, refer to three scenarios: called scenery of Reference – REF, Currently Planned Policies – CPP and Ambitious Scenario – AMB.
In all the three scenarios, hydroelectric production is dominant: growing quite significantly (more than double of the 2015 levels) in the AMB scenario of 2030. This massive hydro capacity expansion rise environmental concerns and makes to see with interest the other resources. However, the rest of the renewable assumes only a moderate increase and remains below 20% even in the ambitious scenario. Instead, in the two other scenarios reaching respectively the 50%, and 25% of the ambitious scenario.
The complete report on Albanian Res Capacity and Energy Market Perspectives within EU Policies of 2020 and 2030 will be available very soon in the here page.