Albania: ERE to examine on 6 November KESH licence for the 110 MW floating power plants in Vlora

Albania’s energy regulator (ERE) published on 4 November the agenda for its board meeting on 6 November. Among the 12 items is the application by the Albanian Power Corporation (KESH) for a licence to generate electricity at the floating thermal power plants “Tigri 1”, with an installed capacity of 50 MW, and “Tigri 3”, with 60 MW.

The plants. According to KESH, the two barges are moored by the Triport in Vlora, close to the Vlora thermal power plant, whose infrastructure they use to connect to the national grid. They have diesel engines running on heavy fuel oil (HFO) with a sulphur content below 0.5%: nine Wärtsilä generating sets of 6 MW each on Tigri 1 and ten on Tigri 3. The company says the solution became necessary during the 2021 energy crisis, to cover the public supply obligation and as reserve capacity for system security.

The figures. According to Balkanweb, the barges arrived in Vlora in autumn 2022, after a government tender for leasing thermal capacity held at the end of 2021. In 2025 they produced 77,000 MWh, about 1% of net domestic production of 7.44 million MWh, the outlet wrote in April.

The rest of the agenda. The ERE board will also discuss the selling price of the supplier of last resort for October 2026 for customers connected at 35 kV, and the registration of energy storage facilities at three solar plants: 10 MW and 30 MW plants of EZ-5 Energy and a 50 MW plant of Kronos Konstruksion. The agenda also includes opening procedures for new licensing regulations, for the pricing methodology of the supplier of last resort and for the methodology for sharing energy and benefits within renewable energy communities.

Context. The meeting is held under Law No. 59/2026 on the electricity sector. On 3 November, ERE put out for consultation draft regulations on switching supplier and on disconnecting vulnerable customers.

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