The ElectricUP program was contracted last year, now we are in the implementation phase and by September we expect to have around 1,800 completed projects, which will add up to over 100 new green MW and over 4,000 charging stations for electric cars, stated on Thursday, in a conference on energy issues, Cristian Ilie, general director of the “Energy Efficiency” Directorate with the Ministry of Energy.
“By September we expect to have around 1,800 completed projects, which will add up to over 100 new green megawatts and over 4,000 charging points in Romania. They are dispersed throughout the country. I think it is a successful project, because I saw the world very satisfied and I am usually asked when the 2nd launch of ElectricUP is coming,” said Cristian Ilie, quoted by Agerpres.
He added that another program carried out even within the Direction he leads is the PNRR Investments 5 program, which refers to the increase of energy efficiency in industry and which closed on March 31. This program offered up to 1.2 million euros per project for increasing energy efficiency in an enterprise.
“I think that not enough projects have been submitted. The market may not be ready. Why? Because energy efficiency and energy production programs have been launched in all ministries. We are looking at the program from the Administration the Environmental Fund, which launched the Green House, with the installation of photovoltaics. We look at the POIM, from the Ministry of European Funds, which, in the same way, had many programs for UATs and companies. And we also look at the Ministry Development, which had many programs launched. What is the result? The number of specialists in the country is limited. They have not had the capacity to take over more, and more, and more…. And not only that. The network is also not ready… I mean, I know what problem did we have to obtain for the applicants the ATRs (connection permits), the network connection certificates, because the network was not ready for such a thing, and the distributors, from the 15 days that the law offered them to issue that ATR, they took maybe a month or more…And it’s not just in my case. I heard the same complaint from the projects made on AFM and from other projects,” explained the director of the Ministry of Energy.