The local investors employers’s organization PIAROM requires the Government and Parliament to expedite energy laws, considering “particularly serious the prolonged lack during 2016 to 2017, of the important decisions needing to be taken in the energy field”, according to a press release received by energynomics.ro.
“In a period where EU debates the ‘winter package’, containing measures aimed at strengthening the European energy market, in a period in which EU energy policy is violated by the North Stream 2 project, Romanian authorities did not discuss nor approve any measure in the energy field,” PIAROM officials say.
They appreciate that 2016 favored, by the lack of relevant measures, the fall of energy system.
PIAROM also believes that energy strategy adopted late last year is “unrealistic” and represents “just a modeling exercise, expensive and unnecessary in terms of results”, and believes that rural areas should not heat with natural gas but with biomass.
“We ask publicly for years that the energy strategy should take into account the possibility of a ambitious biomass resources, particularly in the production of local resources and thermal energy, which would increase the comfort of the entire population, creating cheap thermal resources necessary to small local industries, generating jobs in non-agricultural activities, namely the realization of revenue from such activities,” say PIAROM officials.
They argue that despite the provisions PNAER 2010 and of the Plan of biomass use 2010, legal documents approved by the governments of Romania, “the program Green House included for funding in 2016 only imported technology, heat pumps and solar panels, ignoring all the comments coming from businesses, including those made public and written by PIAROM. “
“The list of shortcomings in the energy field is long, attesting either a process ‘guided’ by the lack of decision or by biased decisions as is the bill aimed at using biomass, biogas and geothermal water being debated in the Chamber of Deputies of 2016 and favoring excessive and unjustified production of electricity using biogas.”
PIAROM asks the government and parliament “to give due importance to energy issues that arouse during the winter of 2016-2017, proving once again what may happen if the current policy inconsistency continues in this highly sensitive sector, both technically and economically and also insensitive to political affiliation of the policy makers.”
