Romania's share of renewable energy has risen to 11% by the end of 2012. In 2012, Romania saw the highest growth in installed wind power capacity in Europe, with 1079 MW added. A support scheme introduced in 2008 of quota obligations, minimum and maximum prices, and tradable renewable energy certificates drove this growth. However, in 2013 the government amended the law to suspend the issuance of certificates for some technologies until 2017 due to concerns over costs.
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Green economic growth became slogan of thousands public and private activities, nevertheless there are arguments for switching to low-carbon, high-efficiency energy systems disregard enormous investment cost. Innovative energy technologies are able to reduce carbone emissions in aim to limit or avoid climate change directs the public debate. However renewable energy source reduced dependence on imported energy, suspension of conflicts over energy resources, and the increasing price of fossil fuels also are motivate actions. Nonetheless, the potential price and difficulty of doing the transition to a new energy system have brought forted essential opposition from fortified economic interests and consumers equally. In this paper we investigate whether and how photovoltaic power plants as case of renewable energy growing market as Bulgaria do, could become an economic occasion rather than a precious burden. Could a photovoltaic energy capacity induce net economic growth rather than social pay off burden? Analyzing foreign (Korean) direct investment as photovoltaic power plant case study as example of some successful or unsuccessful practices of rapidly growing domestic renewable market. Our aim is this paper to be useful to public or private energy communities in supporting them with professional renewable domestic market anatomy.
International energy partnership program manuscript instructions: case BulgariaSimeon Arnaudov
Green economic growth became slogan of thousands public and private activities, nevertheless there are arguments for switching to low-carbon, high-efficiency energy systems disregard enormous investment cost. Innovative energy technologies are able to reduce carbone emissions in aim to limit or avoid climate change directs the public debate. However renewable energy source reduced dependence on imported energy, suspension of conflicts over energy resources, and the increasing price of fossil fuels also are motivate actions. Nonetheless, the potential price and difficulty of doing the transition to a new energy system have brought forted essential opposition from fortified economic interests and consumers equally. In this paper we investigate whether and how photovoltaic power plants as case of renewable energy growing market as Bulgaria do, could become an economic occasion rather than a precious burden. Could a photovoltaic energy capacity induce net economic growth rather than social pay off burden? Analyzing foreign (Korean) direct investment as photovoltaic power plant case study as example of some successful or unsuccessful practices of rapidly growing domestic renewable market. Our aim is this paper to be useful to public or private energy communities in supporting them with professional renewable domestic market anatomy.
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Romania
1. Romania’s share of renewable energy to total installed capacity has risen in recent years to 11 percent by the
end of 2012. In 2012, it showed the highest global growth rate for commissioned wind power plants (including
only markets bigger than 200 MW of installed capacity), and 1079 MW of wind power plants was installed in that
year (WWEA, 2013). This was due to a support scheme of quota obligations, minimum and maximum prices
and tradable renewable energy certificates introduced in 2008. In the quota system, electricity suppliers and
producers are obliged to produce a fixed quantity of renewable energy per year (increasing annually from 14
percent in 2013 to 20 percent in 2020) (Law No. 220/2008, Art. 4 [4&5]). However, to account for the total capacity
of renewable energy plants that have actually been installed, total consumed electricity, the Romanian Energy
Regulatory Authority (ANRE) may adjust the quotas annually until 1 March for the previous year. The quota for
Romania
General Country
Information
Population: 21,326,905
Surface Area: 238,390 km²
Capital City: Bucharest
GDP (2012): $ 169.4 billion
GDP Per Capita (2012): $ 7,943
WB Ease of Doing Business: 73
Sources: EBRD(2009); WWEA (2013); EurObserv’Er (2013); KPMG (b) (2012); ESHA (2012); World Bank(2014); Armand Consulting
(2010); Renewable Facts (2013); EIA (2013); Hoogwijk and Graus (2008); Hoogwijk (2004); JRC (2011); and UNDP calculations.
R E N E W A B L E E N E R G Y S N A P S H O T :
Key information about renewable energy in Romania
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
10.9%
RE Share
22,000 MW
Total Installed Capacity
Biomass Solar PV Wind Small Hydro
16.8 6.4 1,905 450
12,100 219,700 14,000 1,100
2,378 MW
Installed RE Capacity
Electricity Generating
Capacity 2012
Installed Renewable Electricity
Capacity 2012 in MW
Technical Potential for Installed
Renewable Electricity Capacity in MW
2. 2013 was 0.224 certificates per MW-h (ANRE, 2014).The certificates, issued by the transmission grid operator, can
either be purchased on the market for green certificates or produced by generating renewable energy. Renew-
able energy producers have the right to obtain green certificates for 15 years from the time a new plant is com-
missioned, or seven years for plants that existed when the law as adopted. Suppliers and producers that do not
meet their required quota are required to buy the missing certificates at €110 per certificate. But in 2013, due to
concerns about the cost of promoting renewable energies, the Government of Romania amended Law No.
220/2008. ANRE evaluated the various technologies for overcompensation and consequently suspended the is-
suance of tradable renewable energy certificates for specific renewable energy technologies until 2017. However,
these certificates are only suspended and all delayed certificates will be provided to the power producers by the
end of 2020. Both existing and newly commissioned power plants before 1 January 2014 are affected by this
amendment.With Government Decision no. 994/2013 in December 2013, the Government of Romania reduced
the number of certificates for installations commissioned after 1 January 2014 producing electricity from wind,
solar and new constructed small hydropower (Republic of Romania, 2013).
In line with the EU Directive 2009/28/EC on Renewable Energy, Romania developed a National Renewable Energy
Action Plan targeting a share of 24 percent of renewable energy sources in gross final energy consumption by
2020 (Government of Romania, 2010). It is planned that 729 MW of installed small hydropower capacity, 260 MW
of installed solar photovoltaic capacity, 4,000 MW of installed wind power capacity and 600 MW of installed bio-
mass power capacity will be commissioned by 2020 resulting in a total of 12,589 MW from renewable energy
sources, including large hydro. The Law No. 123/2012 on Electricity and Natural Gases and Law No. 220/2008 Es-
tablishing a System for the Promotion of Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources define the legislation
for electricity generation from renewable sources. Other incentives exist in addition to the quota-based support
scheme.Through the subsidy programmes,‘Modernisation of Agricultural Exploitation’and‘Increasing the Added
Legislation and policy
Quota promotion with tradable renewable energy certificates in Romania
R E N E W A B L E E N E R G Y S N A P S H O T :
Eligible
technologies
Number of green certificates
obtained per MW-h for power plants
Price per MW-h per certificate for Power
Plants commissioned after 1 January 2014
commissioned before
1 January 2014
commissioned after
1 January 2014
Min price/MW-h
(€27/certificate)
Max price/MW-h
(€55/certificate)
Wind Until 2017: 2 (1)
From 2018: 1
Until 2017: 1.5
From 2018: 0.75
40.5
20.25
82.5
41.25
Solar All: 6 (4) All: 3 81 165
Geothermal All: 2 All: 2 54 110
Hydro New: 3 (2)
Modernized: 2
Other: 1
New: 2.3
Modernized: 2
Other: 1
62.1
54
27
126.5
110
55
Biomass CHP: 3
Energy Crops: 3
Other: 2
CHP: 3
Energy Crops: 2
Other: 2
81
54
54
165
110
110
Source: Law No. 220/2008 including amendments from Emergency Ordinance no. 57/2013 (in parentheses) and Government
Decision no. 994/2013 for the determination of certificates from 1 January 2014.
3. Romania
Institutions
Organization Responsibility Website
Ministry of Economy
and Commerce
- Responsible for shaping the national energy strategy www.minind.ro/
Energy Regulatory
Authority (ANRE)
- Energy regulator responsible for ensuring fair and in-
dependent regulations in the fully liberalized elec-
tricity market, e.g. the adjustment and enforcement
of the obligatory renewable energy source quotas
for electricity producers
www.anre.ro/
Transelectrica S.A. - Transmission system operator responsible for trans-
mission and electricity market management
www.transelectrica.ro/
Hidroeléctrica S.A. - State-owned and currently the country’s largest
electricity generator
- Aimed to have privatized its small hydropower plants
by the end of 2013.
- Successfully tendered 14 small hydropower plants,
raising €10.6 million with an installed capacity of 9.4
MW in early 2013, and tendered 25 small hy-
dropower plants in July 2013
www.hidroelectrica.ro
Value of Agricultural and Forestry Products’, funds from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
are used to promote investment in renewable energy projects for applicants’own energy consumption.The first
covers up to 75 percent of costs of farmers’renewable energy projects, the second covers up to 50 percent (to
a maximum of €2,000,000, depending on the size and location of the enterprise). The Romanian Environmental
Fund covers up to 50 percent of project costs for Romanian enterprises’renewable energy projects, to a maximum
of Leu 30 million (c. €6.7 million). Since 2010, the fund has not published calls for applications and it is expected
that the terms and conditions will change with the new call for applications (ResLegal, 2013). If renewable energy
projects are supported by a subsidy, ANRE’s evaluations of the number of certificates granted for the specific
technology are made on a case-by-case basis.There are tax incentives, such as the exemption of excise and spe-
cific local taxes for electricity produced from renewable sources, and renewable energy developers are prioritized
for connection to the grid (KPMG (a), 2012). The plant operator bears the connection costs, but is entitled (if re-
quired) to request an extension of the grid, whose costs are borne by the grid operator (ResLegal, 2013).
Opportunities to finance renewable energy projects in Romania
Financing organization Details Website
Romanian Sustainable
Energy Finance Facility
(RoSEFF)
Small and medium enterprises’renewable energy
projects can apply for loans of up to €1 million and
grants of up to 15 percent (max. €150,000) of invest-
ment costs.
www.seff.ro/
European Bank
for Reconstruction
and Development (EBRD)
Provides renewable energy developers with equity,
loans and loan guarantees for projects with good
commercial prospects of up to 15 years’duration.
www.ebrd.com/pages/workingwithus/pro
jects.shtml
4. Romania
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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www.ebrdrenewables.com/sites/renew/countries/
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European Small Hydropower Association (ESHA), 2012:
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Recent projects
Company Project Status
Energias de Portugal
(Portugal)
Commissioned a wind farm of 90 MW in 2010 and
one wind farm of 134 MW in 2011.
Commissioned
ET Solar (China) Commissioned a 28 MW PV solar power plant in 2013
and holds 50 MW of installed power generating ca-
pacity.
Commissioned
Enel Green Power (Italy) Commissioned two power plants in 2013 with an in-
stalled capacity of 19 MW.
Commissioned
Financing organization Details Website
EU Means
European Investment Fund
European Investment Bank
Structural Funds
Loans and guarantees through Romanian interme-
diaries (e.g. Raiffeisen Bank Romania, Banca Comer-
ciala Romana) and private equity/venture capital are
available.
www.europa.eu/youreurope/business/fi-
nance-support/access-to-finance/
International Finance
Corporation (IFC)
Private, environmental and technically sound projects
may apply for loans of up to 35 percent of the esti-
mated project costs, which are usually provided
through partner intermediaries.
www.ifc.org/