BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 2. In Albania,
during the second quarter of 2025, available electricity increased
by 2.5 percent, Trend reports citing the country’s Institute of
Statistics.
Net domestic production of electric power in this period
decreased by 4.6 percent, reaching the value 1,757 GWh from 1,841
GWh of electricity produced in the second quarter of 2024. This
production was realized by independent power producers to the
extent 43.5 percent, by public hydro plants at 40.1 percent of net
domestic production and other producers that generated 16.4 percent
of net domestic electricity production.
Gross import of electric power (including exchanges), in the
second quarter of 2025, reached the value 725 GWh from 623 GWh,
compared to the same period of the previous year, marking an
increase by 16.5 percent. Gross export (including exchanges)
reached the value 638 GWh from 665 GWh marking a decrease with 4.1
percent.
Public hydro plants, in the second quarter of 2025, realized 704
GWh from 821 GWh realized in the second quarter of 2024, thus
marking a decrease in production by 14.3 percent.
Independent and concessionaire power producers realized 765 GWh
from 895 GWh realized to the same period of the previous year, thus
marking a decrease in production by 14.6 percent. The other
producers generated 228 GWh, compared to 125 GWh produced in the
same period of the previous year, thus marking 2.3 times increase
in electricity production. Electricity exchange (difference between
gross exports and gross imports of electricity), in the second
quarter of 2025, has reached a negative value by 88 GWh.
Electrical losses have reached value 320 GWh in the second
quarter of 2025 from 323 GWh in the second quarter of 2024, marking
a decrease by 1.0 percent. The share of electrical losses in the
total available energy during the second quarter of 2025 is 17.3
percent, compared to 18.0 percent in the second quarter of
2024.
The consumption of electricity by domestic users, in the second
quarter of 2025, increased by 3.3 percent, reaching 1,525 GWh from
1,475 GWh realized in the second quarter of 2024. The impact on the
increase of the final consumption of electricity by domestic users
was provided by consumption of electricity by households with an
increase of electricity consumption by 10.2 percent, while the
energy consumed by non-households consumers decreased by 3.0
percent, compared to the second quarter of 2024.
