Hydropower makes up almost the entire domestic output in Albania, which helps balance electricity production and consumption to a point, but there are no pumped storage hydropower plants. Moglice HPP has a large reservoir of approx. It recently bought one such project in the United Kingdom. The energy transition implies vast solar and wind power capacity, but with storage systems to save surplus energy and. Statkraft intends to expand its hydropower cascade on the Devoll river in southern Albania with pumped storage system Moglica. The capacity is estimated at 800 MW to 1. The project would expand upon the existing Moglica hydropower plant on the Devoll River, and the. Norwegian renewable energy company Statkraft has completed a feasibility study for a proposed pumped-storage hydropower plant in Albania, which could have a capacity of up to 1,620 megawatts (MW).
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