WP4 Sustainable Energy Action plans DELIVERABLE T4.1 – TARGET COMMUNITIES IDENTIFICATION Date: 18 April 2013 D4.1 Authors: B10 METE DELIVERABLE T4.1 – TARGET COMMUNITIES IDENTIFICATION Disclaimer This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the IPA Adriatic Cross- Border Cooperation Programme. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of ALTERENERGY PARTNERSHIP and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the IPA Adriatic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Authorities 2 Contents PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO ALTERENERGY STRATEGIC PROJECT ..................................................... 4 PART TWO: SELECTION OF TWO ADRIATIC DISTRICTS IN ALBANIA ....................................................... 8 2.1 General Description of Albania ................................................................................................. 8 2.2 General Project Description .............................................................................................. 13 2.3 Results of RES Target for Albania ...................................................................................... 17 2.4 Short Description of Albanian Coastline Counts ..................................................................... 18 2.4.1 Shkodër County ..................................................................................................................... 19 2.4.2 Lezhë County (Object of this contract) ................................................................................. 21 2.4.3 Durrës County ....................................................................................................................... 24 2.4.4 Tirana County ........................................................................................................................ 25 2.4.5 Fier County ............................................................................................................................ 26 2.4.6 Vlorë County ......................................................................................................................... 27 2.5 Multi Criteria Analysis and Project Selection Criteria ....................................................... 27 2.6 Multi Criteria Analysis implemented for selection of two County-s ................................. 29 2.7 Multi Criteria Analysis implemented for selection communes within Lushnja and Lezha Counties ........................................................................................................................................ 30 3 PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO ALTERENERGY STRATEGIC PROJECT In Albania, the local authorities are getting involved with the energy issues affecting their areas of jurisdiction. The Albanian Government has undertaken a decentralization reform transferring a number of competences and responsibilities with the local authorities. In order to encourage more effective use of energy throughout Albania, METE and AKBN aim to commence a programme for the implementation of integrated energy management actions in local communities/cities. The actions will include energy efficiency improvements in public buildings, which will be accompanied by public awareness campaigns, institutional measures and interest subsidies for potential financing and introduction of measures to promote more rational use of energy include, amongst others, thermal insulation, solar water heating, photovoltaic or other RES generation techniques. METE is part of the project “Energy Sustainability for Adriatic Small Communities – ALTERNERGY” financed by the EU under Adriatic IPA CBC Programme. A specific objective of ALTERNERGY is to develop replicable models for the sustainable management of energy resources in small Adriatic communities, improving their capacity to plan and manage integrated actions dealing with energy saving and energy production from renewable sources. METE and the municipalities/communes as beneficiaries included in the project will be directly involved in project development, in order to have at hand demonstration projects for the future, and to build the skills to assist in project development in SMEs and domestic dwellings. The main aim of the Work Package - Integrated Plans for Energy Sustainability is that of defining in each partner region the needed planning for the implementation of integrated energy management actions in a limited number of “target” communities/cities. This planning will be executed in three main phases: 1) Elaboration of an energy assessment study in the selected target communities/cities (energy demand and production analysis, energy and CO2 emissions balance, definition of possible strategies towards a higher sustainability of the local energy system) 2) Definition of integrated energy sustainability plans for the selected target communities/cities (focus on social consensus, expected results and actions and resources) 3) Definition of feasibility studies related to the implementation of specific actions or groups of actions (focus on technical and financial feasibility, detailed cost/benefit analysis, time planning). 4 From the energy assessment that will be made in LOT 2 (Lezha County) LOT 1 (Fieri/Lushnja County already done under first stage), through a process of participated planning conducted according to the European Awareness Scenario Workshop Initiative (EASW) methodology, the energy sustainability objectives for each concerned target community and the activities necessary to achieve them will be agreed and defined. EASW Initiative was launched by the European Commission DG XIII as a pilot scheme to explore new possible actions and social experiments for the promotion of a social environment favouring innovation in Europe. The method aims to find an agreement between the various local interest groups in order to reach a shared definition of sustainable community. At the end of this process, a joint evaluation of the experiences carried out in all the target communities (please read more details below) will be made and general guidelines and recommendations will be drafted for a wider diffusion. The ALTERENERGY Strategic Project aims to provide a significant contribution to the widely agreed objective of achieving a higher level of sustainability with regards to energy production and usage in the Adriatic area. This objective is strictly connected, as we all know, to creating a better environment and the protection of life and the natural environment. In pursuing this overall general objective, the proposed project follows a very specific vision: that of promoting energy sustainability in the small communities of the Adriatic area, through an integrated approach to the efficient use of energy and its production from renewable sources. When we speak of “community” we refer to a wider concept than “city” including, besides the residential area, the industrial zone neighbouring the city and the rural territory that surrounds it. Each of these three “systems” is in fact both an energy consumer and a potential renewable energy source. The main focus of ALTERNERGY is the optimal integration of these systems, allowing a higher degree of global energy sustainability at community level. The idea to focus on small communities comes from many reasons, among which the more relevant are: - Small communities - in the form of small cities well integrated into their natural surroundings - represent one of the most diffused modalities of human settlements in the Adriatic area, hosting an important percentage of the total population. - Sustainable models of integrated energy production and use are easier to implement in small communities, given their tighter connection with the surrounding natural resources (e.g. woods and water flows) and the higher relevance of agricultural activities, with their availability of biomasses. - The relatively low population number of typical small Adriatic communities (less than 10.000 inhabitants) creates better conditions for involving the local population in a participated planning process aimed at an energy use/production paradigm shift: from unaware dependence on fossil fuels and waste of resources to a conscious approach to energy sustainability through RES and RUE. ALTERNERGY expects to reach the following results: 5 • The sharing of integrated sustainable energy management models, suitable for the small communities of the Adriatic area. • Improved capacity of local communities to plan, implement and manage energy saving and distributed energy production projects/actions. • Improved awareness, of citizens and local economic operators (SMEs, professionals), of the opportunities and benefits related to energy efficiency and energy mix changeover and diffusion of project results on a wide European scale. • Good practices for the development of integrated energy sustainability plans in small communities, taking into particular account the issues of global sustainability and participated consensus. • Good practices for the integration of different technology options and solutions and the setting up of proper energy management models in small communities. • Improved business opportunities, internationalisation support for energy SMEs operating in IPA area and enforcement of local energy SMEs systems. • Enhancement of private and public investments in the field of RES and RUE. • Integration between Territorial Cooperation and business approach. The transition to a more “sustainable” model of energy use/production is a complex process