RD (Economy, page 7) Energy market, new scheme. Albania is expected to increase its domestic
power production by nearly 40 per cent by 2020. The Ministry of Economy has completed a draft
of measures for achieving the objective, but it has not been published yet. “Our new Electricity
Market Model has been compiled based on EU directives on electric energy, and on demands of the
Energy Community Treaty. Our previous structure, the Transitional Electricity Market Model had
to be updated on the basis of deeper reforms in the Albanian energy sector,” say experts at ERE.
- RD (Economy, page 7) Market model to be implemented based on forecasts. A liberalized HPP
market model has given great results in domestic power production. Hydropower plants that were
conceded by the govt. increased their output in 2010 by nearly 50 per cent from a year ago.
According to ERE, 19 concessionary and private companies produced a total of 78 per cent more
power than in 2009. Two new power interconnection lines, Elbasan-Tirana-Podgorica and Albania-
Kosovo are believed to be the new pillars that will drastically improve power supply for the
population.
- Gazeta Shqiptare (Economy, page 11) Infrastructure works, CEZ: Power cuts in Tirana, Ksamil,
Borsh, Vrion. On Sept. 2, 3, 4 CEZ Distribution will cut power supply for Ksamil, Borsh, Vrion
villages from 5:00 a.m. until the next three hours. The company is currently working on Bistrica
power lines. The announcement comes soon after the company noted power outages would be
present in some neighbourhoods of the capital from Sept. 1-6.
- Monitor (News, page 9) Electricity network losses drop to 37.2%. Electricity production in the first
six months of the year has increased 33 per cent on a year earlier to 3.959 GWh, according to
INSTAT data. Hydropower plants are the key producers of electricity, occupying 94 per cent of
total production. Consumer increased consumption 14.1 per cent in the first six months: households
consumed 59.2 per cent of the entire grid, up 13.5 per cent compared with last year. Electricity
consumption from other subjects increased 15.1 per cent. Imports were 1,081 GWh, down from
1,706 GWh in the first semester of 2012. Electric power losses in the first semester were 1,774
GWh, accounting for 37.2 per cent of the entire energy that gets consumed. Distribution losses
make up 93 per cent of total losses.
- RD (Economy, page 7) Semester, domestic power production up 33%.
- RD (Economy, page 7) INSTAT, households consume over 59% of the entire grid.
- Monitor (CEZ, page 29) Innovative services. CEZ Distribution is now aiming to provide
innovative services that were not available at the time the company was managed privately. The
former Czech managers spent over 300,000 euros every year on billing service, system
maintenance, while the new Albanian administrator Sait Dollapi, has cut the costs by nearly 10
times in six months. The billing system, myAvis, is updated daily. Large enterprises will be able to
check their bills online starting August this year, using the Converge measuring system. Users can
also file online complaints or ask about CEZ services.
Main headlines on Energy Sector!!!Albanian News
- Monitor (Kosovo, page 36) €240 million Swiss investments in Kosovo’s wind energy system.
Kosovo could become a wind energy producer in the near future as a 45MW wind project in the
village of Zatric is on track to enter the construction phase with Siemens turbines next year.
Christoph Kapp, chief executive of NEK, the Swiss renewable energy developer behind the project,
said the Zatric project has received a preliminary operating licence, while the authorisation process
should be completed by the end of this year. The project will complete in three years, and total
investments could amount to 210-240 million euros, the largest ever foreign investment in Kosovo.
- Monitor (Region, page 39) LukErg Renew to buy more wind farms in Bulgaria. LUKErg Renew, a
joint venture between Italy's ERG SpA (ERG) and Russia's OAO Lukoil, has received permission
from the Commission on Protection of Competition (KZK), to buy four Bulgarian companies
running wind farms in the northeastern village of Hrabrovo, Varna district. In Bulgaria, LUKErg is
involved in the production and wholesale sales of electricity through its companies running wind
turbines on the territory of Kavarna. Italy's ERG SpA, which controls 50% of the joint venture, has
no commercial activity on Bulgarian territory. Lukoil, which controls the other 50% of the capital
of LUKErg, produces electricity through a thermal power plant and a photovoltaic plant near
Burgas. The company also owns the Lukoil Neftochim refinery in Burgas. According to the KZK
report, the planned acquisition will not harm competition in the sector, and LUKErg Renew is free
to buy Globo Energy, Mark 1, Mark 2, and UP Bulgaria 4, which are managed by Yordan
Merakov.
power production by nearly 40 per cent by 2020. The Ministry of Economy has completed a draft
of measures for achieving the objective, but it has not been published yet. “Our new Electricity
Market Model has been compiled based on EU directives on electric energy, and on demands of the
Energy Community Treaty. Our previous structure, the Transitional Electricity Market Model had
to be updated on the basis of deeper reforms in the Albanian energy sector,” say experts at ERE.
- RD (Economy, page 7) Market model to be implemented based on forecasts. A liberalized HPP
market model has given great results in domestic power production. Hydropower plants that were
conceded by the govt. increased their output in 2010 by nearly 50 per cent from a year ago.
According to ERE, 19 concessionary and private companies produced a total of 78 per cent more
power than in 2009. Two new power interconnection lines, Elbasan-Tirana-Podgorica and Albania-
Kosovo are believed to be the new pillars that will drastically improve power supply for the
population.
- Gazeta Shqiptare (Economy, page 11) Infrastructure works, CEZ: Power cuts in Tirana, Ksamil,
Borsh, Vrion. On Sept. 2, 3, 4 CEZ Distribution will cut power supply for Ksamil, Borsh, Vrion
villages from 5:00 a.m. until the next three hours. The company is currently working on Bistrica
power lines. The announcement comes soon after the company noted power outages would be
present in some neighbourhoods of the capital from Sept. 1-6.
- Monitor (News, page 9) Electricity network losses drop to 37.2%. Electricity production in the first
six months of the year has increased 33 per cent on a year earlier to 3.959 GWh, according to
INSTAT data. Hydropower plants are the key producers of electricity, occupying 94 per cent of
total production. Consumer increased consumption 14.1 per cent in the first six months: households
consumed 59.2 per cent of the entire grid, up 13.5 per cent compared with last year. Electricity
consumption from other subjects increased 15.1 per cent. Imports were 1,081 GWh, down from
1,706 GWh in the first semester of 2012. Electric power losses in the first semester were 1,774
GWh, accounting for 37.2 per cent of the entire energy that gets consumed. Distribution losses
make up 93 per cent of total losses.
- RD (Economy, page 7) Semester, domestic power production up 33%.
- RD (Economy, page 7) INSTAT, households consume over 59% of the entire grid.
- Monitor (CEZ, page 29) Innovative services. CEZ Distribution is now aiming to provide
innovative services that were not available at the time the company was managed privately. The
former Czech managers spent over 300,000 euros every year on billing service, system
maintenance, while the new Albanian administrator Sait Dollapi, has cut the costs by nearly 10
times in six months. The billing system, myAvis, is updated daily. Large enterprises will be able to
check their bills online starting August this year, using the Converge measuring system. Users can
also file online complaints or ask about CEZ services.
Main headlines on Energy Sector!!!Albanian News
- Monitor (Kosovo, page 36) €240 million Swiss investments in Kosovo’s wind energy system.
Kosovo could become a wind energy producer in the near future as a 45MW wind project in the
village of Zatric is on track to enter the construction phase with Siemens turbines next year.
Christoph Kapp, chief executive of NEK, the Swiss renewable energy developer behind the project,
said the Zatric project has received a preliminary operating licence, while the authorisation process
should be completed by the end of this year. The project will complete in three years, and total
investments could amount to 210-240 million euros, the largest ever foreign investment in Kosovo.
- Monitor (Region, page 39) LukErg Renew to buy more wind farms in Bulgaria. LUKErg Renew, a
joint venture between Italy's ERG SpA (ERG) and Russia's OAO Lukoil, has received permission
from the Commission on Protection of Competition (KZK), to buy four Bulgarian companies
running wind farms in the northeastern village of Hrabrovo, Varna district. In Bulgaria, LUKErg is
involved in the production and wholesale sales of electricity through its companies running wind
turbines on the territory of Kavarna. Italy's ERG SpA, which controls 50% of the joint venture, has
no commercial activity on Bulgarian territory. Lukoil, which controls the other 50% of the capital
of LUKErg, produces electricity through a thermal power plant and a photovoltaic plant near
Burgas. The company also owns the Lukoil Neftochim refinery in Burgas. According to the KZK
report, the planned acquisition will not harm competition in the sector, and LUKErg Renew is free
to buy Globo Energy, Mark 1, Mark 2, and UP Bulgaria 4, which are managed by Yordan
Merakov.
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