Renewable energy in the Albanian market
How renewable plants still create an hourly position on ALPEX, still need a BRP, and still create imbalance when the forecast is wrong. Support rules live in Law 24/2023 and ERE acts, not on the trading screen.
- Official source
- Renewable-energy participation in the organised electricity market
- Source language
- Albanian
- TradingDesk explanation
- English
Why it matters
Most Albanian desks run hydro, solar or wind. Those plants do not sit outside the market. They still have a day-ahead shape, an intraday revision and a metered actual.
Support schemes, priority dispatch or licensing classes, if they exist, come from Law 24/2023 and secondary ERE decisions. They do not cancel imbalance. A plant that was paid a support price can still leave its BRP with a deviation bill.
Forecast quality is the operational problem. Legal status is the structural one. The desk needs both.
How it works
Official source: the renewable-energy law and any ERE license or support decision attached to the plant. TradingDesk explanation: the hourly chain is the same as for other generation.
Before D-1 the desk forecasts production, builds a day-ahead position on ALPEX if the participant trades there, and nominates the plan through the BRP.
On the day, weather and water change the output. Intraday is the last organised place to move volume. After real time, meters close the story. The difference versus the schedule is imbalance under the balancing rules.
Aggregation is common: many small RES sites, one balancing group. The forecast must use that same perimeter.
Article-level support tariffs and priority rules wait for the official PDF. This page will not invent them.
Key rules / parameters
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Legal parent | Ligji nr. 24/2023, plus the sector law where it applies |
| Market chain | Forecast, ALPEX where used, nomination, meter, imbalance |
| Responsible party | The BRP of the group that contains the plant |
| Support vs imbalance | A support scheme does not replace balancing settlement |
| Official numbers | Only from the act, the license or the ERE decision |
| Official RES law PDF | Ligji nr. 24/2023, attached on this page |
| Self-producers PDF | MIE Instruction 3/2019, see that Wiki page |
TradingDesk context
TradingDesk Forecasting is the product view of this page. Wiki keeps the Albanian rule wrapper: RES is still a position, still a BRP, still an imbalance.
- Source authority
- Source: Republic of Albania / ERE
- Publication date
- 2023-03-23
- Official title
- Ligji nr. 24/2023, datë 23.3.2023, për energjinë e rinovueshme
- Source language
- Albanian
- Last updated
- 2026-09-10
- Official source
ligj_nr._24_dt._23.3.2023.pdf
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