Despite an impressive wind energy potential and a turbine project that started in 2008, Albania has not yet a single wind turbine. DW's el_elezi asks why the country's progress on wind power capacity has been so slow for so long:
Applications have been submitted to the Albanian government to build five wind parks on the Karaburun Peninsula in Vlora, southern Albania towers over the Adriatic Sea. Here, in the not-too-distant future, an extensive wind farm is due to start generating power. This is an extraordinary milestone in wind power generation in a region where copious wind isn't extraordinary at all.generation.
Once in operation in the Lezha mountains, 39 turbines worth €244 million will pack a capacity of 234 MW, covering about 1% of the country's electricity needs. The project, which began back in 2008, took a laborious 13 years to begin construction. But now that it is finally in progress, and electricity is expected to flow sometime next year., or to be more accurate, from one particular renewable energy source: coursing water.
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