Photovoltaics, the number of licensed producers reached 71 by the end of 2025

2026-01-14 07:21:57, Aktualitet CNA

Investments in energy production from photovoltaic plants have increased significantly in recent years.

Official data from the Energy Regulatory Authority shows that last year ended with at least 71 licensed to produce energy from solar plants.

The latest licensed is Spitalla Solar, part of Voltalia and the second investment of this company in our country after Karavasta, which has started production by the end of 2023. Despite the fact that the vast majority of licenses have been obtained by operators with low installed capacity of 2-10 MW, there are at least 14 entities with installed capacity between 20-140 MW.

The latter alone have a total installed capacity of 780MW, some of which has entered production while most are under construction.

Interest in solar energy received a boost after the approval of the legal framework, but also through the promotion that was given through auctions, initially by the government and then with concrete private projects that saw growth after the energy crisis.

This interest continues to remain constant, even investors who already have completed projects, such as Karavasta Solar, part of Voltalia, or the InfoTelecom company, which also has projects in photovoltaics, have encouraged collaborations for the acquisition of land for use by private parties.

A few days ago, during an event on wind energy, where the Albanian government handed over the authorization to the CWP company that intends to build a 600 MW wind farm in Tropoja, concrete figures were also given regarding the interest in photovoltaics. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy Belinda Balluku said that private investments in this segment for investments completed or in process are estimated at 2 billion euros.

"During these years, over 2 billion euros of investments have been committed in the Albanian energy sector as a whole, and today we have over 700 MW of new private photovoltaic energy capacities in operation and 400 more additional self-producing capacities, and we have a future portfolio that is expected to reach 1500 MW with photovoltaic and wind technology. We have over 1600 new MW of deposits in the study and financial facilitation phase," Balluku underlined./Monitor.al