Koman hydropower plant rehabilitation in perspective of Albania transition to EU standards.

Dipl.-Ing. Nikoleta Alushi, BSc

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This research is made for master’s study purposes and contains a professional approach in terms of the water management situation in Albania, in transition to the EU standards. After taken in consideration an engineering structure such as the Koman hydropower plant in the north part of Albania and analysing the existing scientific data, feedback was collected. I have chosen Koman, due to the lack of maintenance and technical support, especially at the dams. Technical and engineering parameters are all mentioned and explained in details along this document. Another focus and very important point is the legal point of view. Since all the operation of the water management situation, from the starting point of the collection of water, to the last outcome which is electrical energy production is based on specific laws, regulations and convents, all of them must be perused and brought attached to the research. Basically, there are many common points of the legal tools between Albania and EU, because there are a considerable number of EU generated convents that are applied even in Albania, in the environmental and energetic point of view. However, there are many inner laws, containing the constitution of Albania which control the water management processes in a strategic level, which should be analysed. The existing EU directives which are still in Power about the dams, new dams, rehabilitations on the dams and so on, are all mentioned in this research and taken into consideration into a possible proposed rehabilitation of the Koman hydropower plant. There will be also mentioned as a good example of an existing hydropower station in EU, in this case in the Czech Republic. The Dlouhé stráně Hydroelectric Power Station in built and operates in such EU standards and I’ve included it on my research to simply show a case study of how a hydropower station might be built and functional in the most accurate way and standards. During and after this analysis is done, the difference between them will lead to the aimed outcomes of this study, in which we will notice and point out the best available practices of water management and electrical energy production from the hydropower plants. All of the documents, articles, pictures and schemes that I have been using to compile my research, are all mentioned at the reference section.

Keywords

Hydropower, Green Energy, Albania, EU Standards, Dams, Rehabilitation

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 23. 3. 2022

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Dr. Ing. Ing. Miroslav Kravka

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Environmental Sciences

Master programme / field:
Landscape Engineering / Environmental Modelling