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There is no installed geothermal generating capacity as for December 2009.

 

 

 

The basis for most of the work in the country is from the "Atlas of Geothermal Resources in Albania" published in 2004. More recently, two publications in 2008 have described the potential for direct-use: "Space Heating/Cooling Borehole Vertical Heat Exchanger – Heat Pump System", and "Geothermal Center for Integrated and Cascade Direct Use of Geothermal Energy of Kozani-8 Well, near Elbasani City". The later publications describe spa-hotels with hot pools, greenhouse and aquaculture installations. The geothermal energy resources for direct use include natural springs and deep wells with thermal water of temperature up to 65.5oC, and ground heat of temperature of 16.4oC (using geothermal heat pumps).

At present the only direct geothermal use is for bathing and swimming with an installed capacity of 9.57 MWt and an annual energy use of 8.53 TJ.
Geothermal heat pumps use is 1.914 MWt and 31.93 TJ/yr with 105 installed units.

This gives a total of 11.48 MWt and 40.46 TJ/yr.
 

Taken from the paper by John W. Lund, Derek H. Freeston, and Tonya L. Boyd: "Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy 2010 Worldwide Review"; published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010, Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010