"Establish renewable energy communities" - Mazreku: Advantages for energy price and poverty, simplify procedures
“Further exploitation of the potential of renewable energy sources for Albania is a necessity, while accelerating the process of creating renewable energy communities is one of them.” During the Political Roundtable on Renewable Energy Communities in Albania, organized by the organization Milieukontakt, emphasis was placed on the advantages of creating these groups.
"Price is a very important element and at the moment that energy is self-produced, of course price is another element in the market and in the way it is developed, but at the same time the social side and the element of energy poverty is a kind of solution because these types of local communities, groups of people in a way also address the problems related to energy poverty. Very important is also the element of saving, of the profit that will be created and the way of distributing it with the community, supporting local needs and this is the strong social component. So, in a way it is a group that aims to help each other and everyone benefits together", - said Valbona Mazreku, executive director of Milieukontakt.
Currently, these citizens' energy associations do not exist in our country.
"Renewable energy communities are not that there are in Albania, much less registered ones. There are attempts, but not yet registered. While, what we have noticed, we are approximating all legislation with the European Union Directives, which deal with the renewable energy sector, but the bylaws still remain incomplete, making this difficult. The procedures are also unclear and slow, difficult to follow, thus limiting the participation of community consumers, that is, people, the union of communities. It seems that there are also other structural obstacles that make this type of effective implementation difficult ", - said Mazreku.
An energy community is a group of people who come together to plan, invest in, and manage clean energy projects, from technical planning to business model design, technology deployment, and maintenance. It allows members to take control of production and consumption, while also providing a level of decentralization of the energy system.
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