Albanian Smart Support Measures Posted in Improvement of Sustainability by Dr Lorenc Gordani, 25th December 2016
The status in promotion of renewable energy in the Energy Community, as included in the 2016 Implementation Report, shown that the transposition and implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC is still an issue in almost all Contracting Parties. The deadline for the submission of the Second National Progress Report in the promotion of energy from renewable sources 2014-2015 for the Contracting Parties as a legal obligation in accordance with Article 15 of Ministerial Council Decision 2012/04/MC-EnC is for the 31 December 2016. Actually, a feed-in tariff is currently applied only to small HPPs (below 15 MW). The new draft Law on Renewable Energy adopted in 22 December 2016 has introduced marked-based support schemes in the form of contracts for difference. Than the ECS has presented the way forward on…