What Can I Do With Electricity From My Solar Panels?
The practical choices for electricity from your panels: use it yourself, store it, share it in a community, sell it, contract it, or join a larger position.
- Official source
- Choices for electricity from your own solar production
- Source language
- Albanian (Law 24/2023 and the self-producer instruction)
- TradingDesk explanation
- English
Why it matters
If you have solar panels, the first question is not how to trade on the power exchange. It is what you can do with the electricity.
Several paths exist. They are not the same legal step. Using power in your own building is different from selling it, and selling it is different from sharing it inside a renewable energy community.
How it works
Start from the meter. Electricity you use on site is self-consumption. What you do not use can be stored, shared, sold, or covered by a contract with a buyer.
A household or a small business often starts as a self-producer. A larger site, or many small sites together, may later sit in an aggregator’s portfolio or take part in the market more directly. Which door is open depends on the connection, the size, and the licence rules. This page maps the choices. It does not replace Law 24/2023, Law 59/2026, or the 2019 self-producer instruction.
Key rules / parameters
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Consume it yourself | Use the electricity in your own building. This is self-consumption. |
| Store it | Charge a battery when you have surplus, and use it later. |
| Share it through a KER | Share renewable electricity inside a renewable energy community, instead of each site acting alone. |
| Sell it | Sell output to a supplier or, if you are allowed, on the organised market. |
| Use it under a PPA | A power purchase agreement is a contract with a buyer for your output over a period. It is not the same as a day-ahead bid. |
| Participate through aggregation | Several small sites can be combined into one portfolio, so they do not each have to face the market alone. |
| Official texts | Law 24/2023, and the 2019 self-producer instruction where it still applies. Later acts can change a step. |
TradingDesk context
This is the front door. The Market, Regulation and Operations pages explain the professional side: the exchange, the licence, nominations and imbalance. Open those when a choice on this page turns into a real position.
- Source authority
- Source: Republic of Albania
- Publication date
- 2023-03-23
- Official title
- Ligji nr. 24/2023, datë 23.3.2023, për energjinë e rinovueshme
- Source language
- Albanian
- Last updated
- 2026-09-30
- Official source
ligj_nr._24_dt._23.3.2023.pdf
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