Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has continued to call on citizens to reduce energy usage during the inauguration of Andrea Stefani school in Tirana, stating that children should become aware of the need to minimise the use and how to do it.
Amid a European energy crisis, Albania has introduced measures such as reducing public lighting after 10 pm and charging a higher tariff for households that use over 800kwh a month. The government, Albanian Electricity Corporation, and other stakeholders have called on the public to save energy and lessen usage.
“The classrooms of these new schools have a lighting technology that is energy-saving and that turns on or off automatically. This relieves this great burden, but it is not enough. Children should be sensitised in all schools first, and the children then turn to the parents’ advisors in the family,” declared Rama.
During a meeting with business owners earlier in the day, he asked them to look at producing renewable energy, particularly solar.
“The world has not yet invented the formula for how all the megawatts and kilowatts produced by a private entity’s solar energy can be put into the grid. We are open to considering incentive instruments to make these investments,” he said while discussing how privately solar power could become part of the national grid.
“I don’t want to throw ideas that are not collated, but we welcome all ideas from you on how we can facilitate investments,” he added.
