Geothermal energy has the potential to provide long-term, secure base-load energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. Accessible geothermal energy from the Earth’s interior supplies heat for direct use and to generate electric energy. Climate change is not expected to have any major impacts on the effectiveness of geothermal energy utilization, but the widespread deployment of geothermal energy […]
Solar energy is abundant and offers signifi cant potential for near-term (2020) and long-term (2050) climate change mitigation.There are a wide variety of solar technologies of varying maturities that can, in most regions of the world, contribute to a suite of energy services. Even though solar energy generation still only represents a small fraction of total […]
Bioenergy is embedded in complex ways in global biomass systems for food, fodder and fi bre production and for forest products; in wastes and residue management; and in the everyday living of the developing countries’ poor. Bioenergy includes different sets of technologies for applications in various sectors. [gview file=”https://info.aea-al.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ch2-Bioenergy.pdf” save=”1″]
All societies require energy services to meet basic human needs (e.g., lighting, cooking, space comfort, mobility, communication) and to serve productive processes. The quality of energy is important to the development process (Cleveland et al., 1984; Brookes, 2000; Kaufmann, 2004). For development to be sustainable, delivery of energy services needs to be secure and have low environmental impacts. Sustainable social […]
The actual energy system in Albania is currently based completely at the hydroenergy. There are enormous doubts on its sustainability, as there are limited generation capacities towards the growing demand. On the other side it is limited with a considerable number of technical and non technical problems related to the net work loss and leading to a multi-year energy […]
Albania has ratified the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and the Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (PEEREA) in 1997. By ratifying PEEREA, countries commit themselves to formulate and implement policies for improving energy efficiency and reducing the negative environmental effects of the energy cycle (Art.5). The aim of PEEREA is that contracting parties shall co-operate and, as […]
From 2010 to 2013 the American University in Kosovo (AUK) conducted household energy consumption survey work. AUK student teams were employed and funding was provided by the World Bank, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA). A substantial dataset has been collected for many urban and some rural homes […]
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Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus have managed to alter the strategic calculations over Europe’s future energy security, following the confirmation of the hydrocarbon reserves under the southeast Mediterranean seabed. With concerns over developments in the Middle East and Russia, European governments and big oil companies are more than keen to explore new energy sources. Greece has […]
