Energy transition seminar
Ana Stojilovska gave a presentation titled “Macedonia and energy transition – situation, challenges and solutions” at the seminar “Energy transition and its impact in Macedonia” organized on 27. May 2015 in Skopje by the French Institute in Skopje, French Embassy and the German Embassy.
The seminar aimed at enabling exchange between French, German and Macedonian experts on the topic and to motivate stakeholders such as politicians, civil society representatives, economic actors, professionals to discuss on energy transition, the latter which is considered a transition from fossil fuels and nuclear energy into sustainable energy supply with renewables and energy efficiency. The panelists included experts from France, Germany, and domestic stakeholders from the civil, private and governmental sector; and the opening address was given by H.E. Laurence Auer, French Ambassador, H.E. Christinе Althauser, German Ambassador and Vladimir Peshevski, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs.
Ana Stojilovska in her presentation highlighted that Macedonia has not reached its 2013 goal for renewables and 2012 goal for energy efficiency. The country has also low goals for renewables and for energy efficiency for 2020 and 2018 respectively and no goals for emissions reduction. She further explained that Macedonia’s energy supply and demand side is dominated by fossil fuels and characterized with waste of energy. Macedonia has introduced some reforms in the area of energy efficiency and renewables such as the obligation municipalities to adopt energy efficiency programs, feed-in tariffs for electricity from renewables, local gasification projects, building of co-generation utilities etc. The challenges that remain to be tackled are the heat market, electricity market liberalization, energy poverty and similar. Suggested solutions include support of co-generation utilities, improving the heat market, setting up more ambitious energy and climate goals etc.
Her presentation in full in Macedonian can be accessed here.
