Romanian Government adopted an emergency ordinance on Thursday, December 30, at the initiative of the Ministry of Energy, which stipulates, among other things, that prosumers will receive a quantitative compensation for energy generated and delivered to the grid, to be offset with that consumed, according to a statement from the relevant ministry.
This GEO was also necessary for the transposition of Directive 944 of the European Union on common rules for the internal market in electricity.
Thus, the prosumers will benefit from quantitative compensation, and the electricity suppliers are obliged to purchase electricity, at the request of the prosumers who produce electricity in power generation units with an installed power between 200 kW and 400 kW.
Consumers who own units of electricity production from renewable sources with an installed capacity of up to 400 kW per place of consumption may sell the electricity produced and delivered to the electricity grid to the electricity suppliers with whom they have concluded electricity supply contracts, according to ANRE regulations, quoted by Agerpres.
The local public authorities that have capacities for electricity production from renewable sources developed, partially or totally, from structural funds, benefit from the suppliers with whom they have electricity supply contract, upon request, from the financial offsetting service between the delivered energy and energy consumed from the grid.
Electricity suppliers are obliged, at the request of prosumers who produce electricity in power generation units with an installed power of up to 200 kW and with which they have concluded electricity supply contracts: to make a quantitative compensation in the invoice of the prosumers, respectively to bill only the difference between the amount of energy consumed and the amount of energy produced and delivered in the network; to report in the invoices of the prosumers, in case the amount of energy produced and delivered in the network is higher than the amount of energy consumed, the difference between the amount delivered and that consumed, the prosumers being able to use the amount of energy over-produced over for a maximum period of 24 months from the billing date.
Electricity suppliers are obliged, at the request of prosumers who produce electricity in power generation units with an installed capacity between 200 kW and 400 kW and with which they have concluded electricity supply contracts: to purchase electricity produced and delivered according to para. (1) at a price equal to the weighted average price recorded in the Day Ahead Market in the month in which the energy was produced; to carry out in the invoice of the prosumers the financial offsetting between the delivered electricity and the consumed electricity from the network.
Individual prosumers may carry out the activity of trading the electricity produced in the electricity production units they own, without registering and authorizing their operation.
The electricity distribution operators are obliged to connect the prosumers and the public authorities in accordance with the specific regulations issued by ANRE for this purpose.
Quantitative compensation for consumers with installations with a power of up to 200 kW will be granted until December 31, 2030, in the context of measures and actions related to meeting the commitments on the share of renewable energy in 2030 specified in the National Energy and Climate Change Plan.