The need for prosumers to install a meter that measures the electricity consumed from their own production is determined by the fact that in this way their own electricity consumption can be determined, ANRE reports, following the declarations of USR deputy Cristina Prună.
At the same time, the obligation of distribution operators to install meters for measuring the electricity produced from prosumer installations has become extremely necessary because the production and consumption of prosumers induce very high costs with imbalances at the level of the energy system, states the National Energy Regulatory Authority, through – a statement.
The representatives of ANRE emphasize that the obligation to install meters for measuring the electricity produced in the prosumers’ installations was established as early as 2021 by the national legislation, so that based on the provisions of the Electricity and Natural Gas Law no. 123/2012, with subsequent amendments and additions, the distribution operator “ensures the purchase, installation, sealing, verification, reading and, if necessary, the replacement of the produced electricity measurement groups, located in the users’ installations, according to ANRE regulations”, the group measuring device being defined as follows: “the assembly consisting of the meter and its related measuring transformers, as well as all the intermediate elements that make up the electrical energy measurement circuits, including the security elements”.
The provisions are applicable starting from December 31, 2021, the date of entry into force of Emergency Ordinance no. 143/2021 for the amendment and completion of the Electricity and Natural Gas Law no. 123/2012, as well as for the modification of some normative acts.
“In the situation where all the energy produced is consumed at the place of consumption and production of the prosumer and consequently, there is no surplus of energy produced to be discharged into the network, then the self-consumption is equal to the electricity registered by the meter provided in the installation prosumer for measuring energy production”, explains ANRE.
USR deputy Cristina Prună previously asked ANRE “to publicly clarify whether it is preparing to abandon the quantitative compensation of energy produced and consumed by prosumers, which would bury the prosumer sector, one of the few components of the Romanian energy sector that has performed in recent years”.
“ANRE decided to install an additional meter at prosumers to measure the amount consumed by them from their own production. This is despite the fact that the existing legal requirement regarding the introduction of smart metering for all consumers in Romania has not yet been met. Our fear is that, through this step, the waiver of quantitative compensation for prosumers is actually being prepared, which would be extremely toxic, not only for prosumers, but for the entire Romanian energy system and, from here, for all of us”, he said. said Cristina Prună, vice-president of the Commission for Industries and Services in the Chamber of Deputies.
