Analysis of the opportunities and challenges for renewable energy market in the Western Balkan countries

Lalić, Danijela; Popovski, Kiril; Gecevska, Valentina; Vasilevska, Sanja Popovska; Tešić, Zdravko

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.011

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“…Renewable energy sources can make an important contribution to the regional energy supply and security. 12 Wind power density is a useful way to evaluate the wind resource available at a potential site. 13,14 Wind power density is directly proportional to 15 : (a) the cube of the wind speed and (b) the density of the air q.…”

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Wind power potential assessment for seven buoys data collection stations in Aegean Sea using Weibull distribution function

Bagiorgas

Mihalakakou

Rehman

et al. 2012

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

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This paper utilizes three hourly measured values of wind speed and direction from seven buoys data collection stations in Aegean Sea to study the wind speed and power characteristics applying the Weibull shape and scale parameters. Specifically, the site dependent, annual and monthly mean patterns of mean wind speed, Weibull parameters, frequency distribution, most probable wind speed, maximum energy carrying wind speed, wind power density and wind energy density characteristics have been studied. The Weibull distribution was found to represent the wind speed distribution with more than 90% accuracy in most of the cases. Slightly decreasing trends were observed in annual mean wind speed values at Lesvos and increasing at Mykonos. The mean values of wind speed, scale parameter, most probable wind speed, maximum energy carrying wind speed, wind power and wind energy density values showed higher values during winter time and lower in summer time. Mykonos was found to be the best site from wind power harnessing point of view. Moreover, the correlation between the percentages of times the wind speed was above cut-in-speed and the measured mean wind speed for the three selected sites and the correlation between the aforementioned percentages and the scale parameter c were examined and were found linear.

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Wind power potential assessment for seven buoys data collection stations in Aegean Sea using Weibull distribution function

Bagiorgas

Mihalakakou

Rehman

et al. 2012

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

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“…This region has, for its small geographic size, considerable RE potential, particularly for wind, photovoltaic and hydropower (Karakosta, Flouri, Dimopoulou, & Psarras, 2012;Lalic, Popovski, Gecevska, Vasilevska, & Tesic, 2011;Tuerk et al, 2013a). This potential, although not as large as the Saharan solar resource, could be of interest for EU countries for several reasons.…”

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“…Hence, increasing the domestic generation capacity, especially from renewables, is an urgent matter and exports would be problematic if they cannibalize economically available resources that are needed domestically. At the same time, under current conditions a high level of market concentration, lack of transparency, state ownership, regulated prices and administrative complexities lead to a challenging context for independent investors and have translated into a slow RE expansion in the region (Karakosta et al, 2012;Lalic et al, 2011;Tuerk et al, 2013a). Several Western Balkan countries included exports in their national renewable energy action plans (NREAPs) and first efforts to cooperate have started, in particular between Serbia and Italy .…”

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Sharing the gains from EU–Western Balkan renewable electricity cooperation

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The EU directive on renewable energy sources enables EU Member States to import renewable electricity from non-EU countries and count these imports towards their renewable energy targets. This article investigates whether such cooperation can be beneficial for selected Western Balkan countries and help them to increase their domestic renewable electricity supply: could wind power exports to the EU from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia enable additional investments in domestic generation, without 'selling out' the exporter countries' best generation sites? Or would exports rather conflict with the Western Balkans countries' domestic efforts to reach their renewable energy targets and increase the domestic electricity supply? For this, a model was developed in Visual Basic to optimize, from the exporters' perspective, the optimal export level to trigger investments but maximize the wind power supply for domestic use. The analysis takes into account the wind potential, support and price levels in the EU and Western Balkans, investor requirements and financing conditions in the investigated countries.The article shows that cooperation offers a way both for EU Member States and some Western Balkan countries to expand renewable electricity supply and reach their renewable energy targets in a cost-effective way. Partial exports of wind power would allow Serbia, Albania and the FYR of Macedonia to reach their 2020 wind targets. This would not be possible under their existing support schemes or electricity prices. The results indicate that Bosnia and Herzegovina lacks cost-efficient potentials and cannot achieve its wind target in the base case, with or without exports. Climate policy relevanceThe results show that wind power cooperation between the EU and Western Balkan countries may simultaneously increase the renewable electricity generation available for the domestic markets in the host countries and help EU Member States to achieve their renewable energy and decarbonization targets. Hence, wind power exports are a way for both the EU and the Western Balkans to provide more carbon-neutral electricity in a cost-effective manner and thus support the achievement of renewable energy and climate targets.

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“…In return, a coppice can provide an endless supply of wood for a wide range of articles. In the Western Balkan region firewood still plays a major role in cooking and space heating, with about two-thirds of the population using firewood to heat their homes and cook with, instead of using electrical or other forms of heating [7]. At the 1992 UN conference in Rio de Janeiro, it was agreed that all products and services from forests would be used more efficiently.…”

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Coppice Forests: Can Traditional Coppice Forest Management Help the Western Balkan Region?

Zeneli¹,

Kola²

2017

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Coppice forests are widespread throughout Europe, but in Western Balkan countries these coppice forests play an especially vital role in the everyday lives of their inhabitants. In the Western Balkan region firewood still plays a major role in cooking and interior heating, with about two-thirds of the population using firewood to stay warm rather than using electrical heating. This paper will be an analysis of the current situation of coppice forests in the Western Balkan region and the opportunities that may be available to the region. The paper will look at the policies implemented in the region and the effects they have had on the activities related to coppice forests in the countries of Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia. The main focus of this paper will be on how Oak coppice forests can help improve the Western Balkan region economies. The limited size and ownership of private forests allow for coppice forests to become an economic asset for rural areas. The integration of traditional practices and new scientific management practices lead to an increase in coppice forests in the region.

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Analysis of the opportunities and challenges for renewable energy market in the Western Balkan countries

Cited by 47 publications

References 6 publications

Wind power potential assessment for seven buoys data collection stations in Aegean Sea using Weibull distribution function

Wind power potential assessment for seven buoys data collection stations in Aegean Sea using Weibull distribution function

Sharing the gains from EU–Western Balkan renewable electricity cooperation

Coppice Forests: Can Traditional Coppice Forest Management Help the Western Balkan Region?

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