November 2017 - ESC Adriatic

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ACERC presentation at the Summit “Hydropower Balkans 2017”

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Legal Granting Issues on Hydroelectric Resources in the Western Balkans by Adv. Lorenc Gordani, PhD [metaslider id=24472] The purpose to get an overview on the strategic development of hydropower sector makes inevitable the in-depth analyses on the legal framework. The WB6 countries as Contracting Parties (CP) of the Energy Community (EnC) are signatories (2012) and already obliged to implement the entire EU legislative framework in their energy sectors (2015). Notwithstanding, the above commitments, coordination and common approach does not exist at regional and Western Balkans 6 (WB6) level, except to the ownership, organisation and operations of the natural monopolies such as the electrical transmission and distribution networks. Then the WB6 countries are free to pursue the model that suit better to their needs, in implementation and the reaching of the…

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Commercial issues on net metering and net billing schemes

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Commercial issues on net metering and net billing schemes, Dr Lorenc Gordani, 6th Nov 2017 The power sector has been undergoing one of the most challenging changes for the last 70 years, with a share of the distributed energy sources being increased, thereby significantly changing network planning and operation philosophy. Besides the impact from technical point of view, the distributed generation with self-consumption is additionally opening a set of commercial issues that need to be resolved with the least market distorting effects possible. The concept of the "Net energy metering schemes" introduced by new res law foreseen a scheme that makes the bidirectional measuring possible for small and medium enterprises or household customers, who have installed a total capacity for the production of electricity from wind or sun under 500…

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Kosovo – Albania energy agreement signed within month, SeeNews, 1 Nov 2017

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Kosovo says will sign common energy market agreement with Albania in November, SeeNews, 1 November 2017 PRISTINA (Kosovo), November 1 (SeeNews) - Albania and Kosovo plan to finalize later this month an agreement to establish a common energy market, the Kosovo ministry of economic development has said. The agreement will be signed during a meeting of the governments of Albania and Kosovo, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The meeting is scheduled to be held on November 27 in the southeastern Albanian city of Korça, as Albanian prime minister Edi Rama announced in September after a meeting with Kosovo foreign minister Behgjet Pacolli. The governments of Albania and Kosovo see the expected agreement as a very important step towards increasing energy transmission between the two countries. They also…

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Albania: ten more PV up to 2 MW apply for tariff of € 100/MWh, Emiliano Bellini, 23 Oct. 2017

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Albania: ten more PV projects up to 2 MW apply for regulated tariff of €100/MWh, Emiliano Bellini, 23 October 2017 In addition to ten project proposals for solar parks not exceeding 2 MW, the Albanian Ministry of Energy and Industry has also accepted an application for a 5 MW PV facility. The Albanian Ministry of Energy and Industry has published on its website a new list of PV projects of up to 2 MW that are applying for the regulated tariff of €100/MWh. This is the government’s offering in the frame of its support scheme for small and medium hydro- power plants, solar projects not exceeding 2 MW in size, and wind projects not larger than 3 MW. An inaugural 2 MW project, submitted by Gega & Maska Sh.p.k., is…