In addition, the maximum power value that can be installed in wind power and the additional power reserve required in terms of National Power System (NPS) safety will be calculated and published annually, not quarterly as happens currently, based on legislation, and the right of network operators to put more wind power conditions and restrict their access to NPS will be limited to those circumstances justified by the need to maintain system security.
Maximum value of trading green certificates was increased from 248.30 lei / green certificate (57.389 euros) in 2012 to 264.09 lei / green certificate (58.823 euro / green certificate) in 2013, according to an order of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE), published Thursday in the Official Gazette.
In turn, the minimum trading value of green certificates has been increased slightly from 121.89 lei / green certificate (28.172 euros) in 2012 to 129.64 lei (28.876 euros) in 2013.
Also, according to ANRE, the value of a Green Certificate not purchased by the economic operators that are annual obligated to acquire green certificates, in case of failing the mandatory quota of green certificates, has been increased from 496.61 lei / green certificate not purchased (114.777 euro) for 2012 to 528.17 lei / green certificate not acquired (117.646 euro) for 2013.
They transmitted that they will reduce the maximum value
Romania intends to amend the renewable energy support scheme currently in force, in order to achieve a balance between the needs of industry and consumers of energy, said at the end of February, the Minister for Energy, Constantin Nita.
"We have one of the most generous schemes for renewable and we dont want to remove it, we want to adjust it, to reach a balance between the needs of industry and the needs of households," said Nita.
At the time, authorities had launched the information that from July 1 this year, aims to reduce the number of green certificates issued for wind facilities from 2 to 1 or 1.5, for small hydro from 3 to 1.4, for photovoltaic projects from 6 to 3.5 and for biomass from 2 to 1.6.
Another intention was to reduce significantly the maximum value permitted on the trading market for green certificates, from about 57 to 30 euros / MW, the minimum being maintained at about 28 euros / MW.
Maximum capacity will be calculated annually
Maximum power value that can be installed in wind power and the additional power reserve required in terms of National Power System (NPS) safety will be calculated and published annually, not quarterly as happens currently, based on legislation, and the right of network operators to put more wind power conditions and restrict their access to NPS will be limited to those circumstances justified by the need to maintain system security.
Changes appear in an ANRE proposal to revise the Technical Norm – "Technical requirements for connection to the public electricity networks for wind power plants", approved by ANRE Order no. 51/2009 and are justified, according to the authority, by the need to adapt the regulatory framework to the new law for electricity and natural gas no. 123/2012.
According to an approving memo for the proposed amendment, the calculation and publication of the maximum power value which can be installed in wind power plants and the additional power reserve necessary in NPS safety terms will be made annually, not quarterly, as in present.
"Also, it was made clear that the restricting of access can only be done in accordance with Art. 25 of Law 123/2012 and it was explained the significance of maximum power installed in wind power plants as the maximum power installed of all wind power plants that can operate without restriction under the conditions of NPS, at least 90% during a year", states the note.
In addition, the right of network operators to make additional requirements will be limited in accordance with Art. 25 of Law 123/2012, only in those circumstances justified by the need to maintain the safety of NPS.
"The network operator must justify any new condition and this must be motivated only by the need to avoid situations that could affect the safety of NPS", reads the note by ANRE.
Also, certain standards will cease to be mandatory, gaining character of recommendation. Those standards relate to wind turbine design conditions and to the measurement and assessment of power quality characteristics of wind turbines connected to a grid supply.
"According to EU law and practices, technical standards can only recommend compliance with the standards and can not enforce their compliance or application," explains ANRE.
The proposal of revision also provides for establishing obligations of network operators to verify if the connection and operation of wind power plants does not lead to violation of the conditions of operation in the frequency, voltage, fault crossing ability and power quality at the point of common coupling, established in the technical standard.
"In all cases, confirming compliance from wind power plants of conditions of connection is made by issuing a certificate of conformity. The verification of fulfillment of the conditions for connection and operation of wind power plants and the issuance of the certificate of conformity shall be carried out according to a procedure developed by the transmission and the system operator, in consultation with the distribution system operator and approved by ANRE , "reads the note .
Purchase obligation tripled
Earlier this month, ANRE has set mandatory quota of green certificates acquisition by electricity suppliers that have this requirement, for renewable energy produced in 2012, at 0.1188 green certificates for each MWh of energy produced from renewable sources, amount to more than 3 times higher than the one established for 2011, which was 0.03746 green certificates / MWh.
"The mandatory share of purchasing green certificates by operators who are required to purchase green certificates for 2012 is set at 0.1188 green certificates / MWh", reads the ANRE Order no. 8/27.02.2013.
For 2011, the mandatory quota of purchasing green certificates was set at 0.03746 green certificates / MWh.
In November last year, ANRE estimated the quota of purchasing green certificates for 2012 to 0.116 green certificates / MWh, corresponding to a total of 5.520.116 green certificates issued last year, to a total of final electricity consumption estimated for 2012 at 47, 5bilion MWh.
Green certificates are provided free by the state for renewable energy producers, who then sell them to electricity suppliers. Thus, a producer of energy from alternative sources makes money both from selling the electricity he produces and the marketing of green certificates that electricity suppliers are obliged to buy, as a form of subsidizing renewable energy.
Costs of green certificates purchased by electricity suppliers are transferred in electricity bills of final consumers.
ANRE issued then also the number state of green certificates that companies are required to purchase to fulfill their mandatory quota for 2012.
Thus, a total of 106 electricity suppliers must purchase a total of 5.548.446 of green certificates to meet the mandatory quota for 2012.
The largest quantity must be acquired by the companies Electrica Furnizare SA (1.238.682 green certificates), Enel Energie Muntenia SA (558.033), Enel Energie SA (529.582), E.ON Energie Romania SA (457.765), CET Griviţa SRL (438.091) and Alro SA (367.037).
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