National Action Plan for Renewable Energy Resources

Albania approved several National Action Plans on Renewable Energy since 2015. The National Action Plan for Renewable Energy Resources in Albania 2015-2020 was passed in January 2016. As one of the Contractual Parties of the Energy Community Treaty, Albania is obliged to transpose and to be in compliance with the EU Directive 2009/28/EC “On the enhancement of the use of energy from renewable resources”. One of the requests of the law 138/2013 “On Renewable Energy Resources” and of this Directive is the preparation and the approval of the National Action Plan for Renewable Energy (NREAP), which establishes national objectives of renewable energies in the final total domestic consumption as well as the supporting measures to achieve them.The National Action Plan on Renewable Energy 2018-2020, released in Official Gazette No. 45/2018, seeks to simultaneously boost the production of renewable energy and economic prosperity in rural areas.