The Local Investors Employers (PIAROM) claims that heating of the Romanian localities issue is limited to discussing the relationship between ELCEN-RADET in Bucharest, given that, out of 315 heating systems only 40 are physically usable.
PIAROM adds that the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration should inform the public, with utmost urgency, the way in which they will provide heating in the winter 2016/2017 for the citizens and upon the actual measures for ensuring Romania’s energy efficiency targets imposed by the EU directives.
The Employers requires publicly that the Ministry of Energy puts into public debate the provisions relating to the use of renewable resources: biomass, biogas, geothermal water, energy use of the municipal waste.
The PIAROM letter comes just one day after the protest of other three major business organizations in the field of renewables. The associations RWEA, PATRES and RPIA issued Monday a document asking the government “to urgently achieve the necessary amendments to the Law 220/2008 by issuing an emergency ordinance through which starting from 2017 all the green certificates, including those postponed, to be capitalized as the only measure that could save the industry from bankruptcy. “The document was signed Monday by Ionel David, Executive Manager of the Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA), Răzvan Lupulescu, President of the Romanian Association for Photovoltaic Energy and Viorel Lefter, President of the Patres Organization of Employers Producers of Renewable Energy.
There is “an alarming lack of interest, both from the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Environment, regarding the possibility of superior capitalization of the renewable energy resources. They allow mobilizing existing resources locally, creating thermal energy required for heating settlements, job creation employment and reduce pollution,” say the PIAROM officials.
The Employers also ask the Government to seek urgently from the mentioned ministries, as well as the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration to present solutions upon heating in the winter 2016-2017 for the localities in Romania, according to Bursa.
“We stand against the maintenance of a major grant of heat (about 700 million lei in the winter 2015/2016), while the inadmissible ignorance of the competent authorities of both technical solutions capable of ensuring greater exploitation of renewable resources (biomass, biogas, geothermal water) as well as the increase to the minnimum of 80% staged, efficiency heating systems. I regret that in contradiction with the pblic efforts made in February 2016 to all state authorities, mainly to the Ministry of Energy, the national programs PNAER2010 as well as the National Plan of recovery of biomass are ignored by the policymakers, continuing public debate with the sole aim of producing electricity. “