The lifespan of the Drin River hydropower plants has significantly increased, ensuring clean energy production for an additional 30 years. This site uses cookies to optimize functionality and give you ...

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Albania this June inaugurated its first major hydropower project since the early 1980s, bringing online Ashta I, the first of two run-of-river plants with a combined capacity of 53 MW. At the ...

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2018 — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a Euro12 million of Additional Financing for Dam Safety Project for Albania. The project will enhance the ...

State-owned Albanian utility Korporata Elektroenergjetike Shqiptare (KESH) has completed construction on a 5.1 MW ground-mounted PV facility at the Qyrsaq dam in Vaun e Dejës, in Shkodër County, ...

Korporata Elektroenergjetike Shqiptare began development of the €13.9 million facility in December 2018. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering lending €9.5 million to a ...

As cloud forms, the first raindrop falls from the sky and splashes from a flower petal into alpine soil. Here the droplet is joined by more and is pulled downwards, beneath paw tracks of the elusive ...

In your recent article “Albania Untamed” (HTSI, September 30) you write about the unspoilt, wild and beautiful landscape of this Balkan country. I welcome your article. Together with other ...

WINTER in Albania, Europe's second-poorest country (after Moldova), is a wretched season, bringing power-cuts of 12 hours a day in the cities and 20 hours in the countryside. Hence the brisk import ...

URA E FSHEJT, Kosovo — With arms outstretched like bird's wings in the traditional "swallow style", Evald Krnic plunged more than 20 metres from a bridge in southern Kosovo into the cold White Drin ...