Name of Project: AlbaForest Solar Energy Project (TP006)

Location: Tirana, Albania (Dajti, Divjaka and Llogara National Parks)

This project has now received funding from Andante Travel. If you would also like to contribute to this project please email us for details.

Project Status Table for TICOS Project TP006
Date verified by TICOS: 7 January 2008
Estimated project cost:
80,000 USD
Project timescale:
7 years from receipt of funding
Additional sustainable development benefits: The wider promotion and implementation of sustainable-natural resource management practice including:
  • Managing biodiversity through the conservation of rare and threatened species and habitat restoration
  • Developing sustainable management plans for protected areas at the interface between humans and the forest, particularly in agro-forestry, silvo-pastoralism, mountain watersheds and industrial emission management
  • Promotion and adoption of principles, criteria and indicators, for sustainable forest management and relevant international conventions

Project Details

This project focuses on the introduction of alternative energy sources in the form of photovoltaic/solar panels and the cleaning up of three of Albania’s National Parks Dajti, Divjaka and Llogara which are popular tourist attractions.

The main aim will be to introduce alternative energy sources, in the form of solar energy panels and solar water heaters, to holiday facilities and accommodation settlements associated with the tourism industry. Restaurants, hotels and tourist activity centres will be converted to use solar energy panels and solar water heaters to substitute electricity and other non-renewable fuel sources in order to reduce CO2.

In addition to the introduction of solar energy, the project aims to clean up the National Parks by removing unwanted waste in a sustainable manner. Guidance and training material will be provided to those working within the tourism industry (i.e. in restaurants and hotels) at the selected National Parks on how to reduce their CO2 emissions and how to keep the parks clean.