Solar Thermal Water Heating Market in Albania (2004)
This document provides an overview of a PDF-B (Project Development Fund) project, built-up in partnership with the UNDP and GEF, designed to improve the solar water heating market in Albania.
It was said that the Albanian market is characterised by an overall use of electricity in domestic water boilers, which, besides being expensive, also worsens the electricity demand-supply imbalance in Albania. Despite favourable climate conditions, solar water heating, just like any other sources of renewable energy, is not commonly used in Albania. At that time the UN stated, that there was no specific legislation to promote its use, but a National Energy Strategy was being prepared together with a Law on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources.
The preliminary market growth estimation of this report states that outcomes from this project and from other measures implemented in the framework of the National Energy Strategy, could lead to a relevant increase of up to 50,000 m2 of the installed area of SWH systems until the end of the project and after that on annual average of 20%, thus reaching 900,000 m2 by the end of the 20th year. In this scenario, the corresponding cumulative GHG reduction potential can be estimated at 1,5 million tons in the coming 20 years.
Source: UNDP
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