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The subsidy scheme for small renewable energy projects received the green light from the European Commission and expects a final word from the government, told energynomics.ro, Niculae Havrileţ, President of the energy regulatory body, ANRE.
“We expect discussions in government, if it wants to implement a new scheme of ‘feed-in tariffs’ for incentivizing investors in renewable energy projects. The EC agreed, but who actually establishes the effective payment, the actual implementation to the bill of the payment of the feed-in tariff?… Only the government can approve it, “ said Havrileţ for energynomics.ro.
He also said that producers of up to 2 MW from biomass and biogas will receive a cogeneration bonus.
“The cogeneration bonus is provided by the Gov’t Decision 1215, it is functional, for now just CETs are taking it, but we want to expand it to producers of up to 2 MW from biomass and biogas”, which will thus receive 18 lei per MWh.
He argues that this provision would take effect in the second half of this year.
The liberalization may end in 2018
He also said that it is possible that natural gas price liberalization to be extended to 2020, if there are differences between the regulated and competitive prices of gas, but, in principle, the calendar will end in 2018 because there is no foreseeable increase onto the free market, but rather discounts.
“We believe that gas prices will decrease with the adding to consumption of the quantities from the Black Sea,” said Havrileţ.
For 2015, ANRE and the Government will propose to IMF and CE that the gas supplied to the population to be of 58 lei per MWh from July 1.
“It is a proposal for 58 lei per MWh, compared to 53.3 lei per MWh as it is now. This will be our proposal, together with the Government. It will stay at this level until April 1 the next year. We asked to do not perform quarterly increases, because they are difficult, complicated to calculate,” said Havrileţ.
A week ago, Iulian Iancu, Chairman of the Commission of Industries from the Chamber of Deputies anounced that the regulated fixed tariffs for small renewable energy capacities will be introduced in March, while Zoltan Nagy, a member of the Regulatory Committee of ANRE, explained that feed-in tariffs were having been blocked at the European Commission because of personnel changes.
