Introduction
Country: Bulgaria
The Bulgarian energy policy follows the directions of the EU energy policy and regards the energy efficiency and the usage of renewable energy sources (RES) as highly important.
In the Energy law ( 8 th September 2006) chapter 11 concerns the promotion of power generation from RES and co-generation. The important points in the different articles are as follows:
Article 159. (1) The public provider and/or last suppliers who are granted an electricity supply license shall buy out the entire volume of electricity generated in a plant using renewable energy sources and registered with a certificate of origin with the exception of the volumes for which the producer has entered into contracts pursuant to Chapter Nine, Section VII or with which he participates in the balancing market.
(2)The public provider and/or last suppliers shall be obliged to buy out the electricity generated in plants using renewable energy sources, including hydroelectric plants, with total installed capacity up to 10MW at preferential prices.
Article 160(2) The costs of connecting the power plant to the respective grid (to the property boundary of the electrical equipments) shall be covered by the producer.
Article 162a (1) Transmission and distribution companies are obliged to priority connect all plants, generating electricity, from highly-efficient combined generation with installed capacity up to 10 MW , to the transmission, respectively destributin grid.
(2) The costs for the connection of the plant to the grid, up until the ownership boundary of the electrical facilities, are covered by the producer.
The electrical power mentioned in paragraph 1 is purchased at preferential prices.
The Law for Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources and Biofuels is published in State Gazette issue 49, 19 th June 2007.
The main points in the Law, concerning the Production of Electricity with RES&CHP for Homeowners are:
- Generation of Energy from RES is promoted when rendering the characteristics of different types of RES and technologies for the generation of electrical power.
- Compulsory priority connection of producers of energy from RES to the electrical grid from the company closest to the location of the electrical facility.
- Setting of preferential prices for purchase of energy generated from RES, with the exception of energy generated by hydro power plant (HPP) with installed power over 10 MW
- Softer administrative regulations on energy generated by RES
- The distribution company is obliged to connect to the grid every producer of electricity from RES, who is also a domestic consumer. The boundary of ownership of electrical facilities and the location of the measuring devices should be at close proximity. It should point to the minimal connection scheme.
- The State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission(SEWRC), issues the producer certificates for origin of energy from RES, named "Certificates of Origin"
- The obligatory purchase is done according to purchase contracts. The contract term is 12 years.
Contact :
Mrs Kostadinka Todorova
Director "Energy efficiency and environment protection" in Ministry of Economy and Energy
Address: 8, Triadica Str., 1000 Sofia
Phone: +345 2 926 32 55
E-mail: c.todorova@government.bg
Web site: www.mi.government.bg
Technical Rules for Designing RES Power Plants Regulation ? 14 from 15.06.2005, from the Minister of regional development and public works and the Minister of energy and energy resources, chapter IV , provides the technical rules and regulations for the designing of power plants producing energy from RES
Article 127.The power plants producing energy from RES are:
- Hydro power plants
- Wind power plants
- Geothermal power plants
- Solar Photovoltaic power plants
- Biomass power plants
Article 131. Solar photovoltaic power plants, called "PV systems", are clasified as follows
a) small PV systems with power capacity of 1-10 MW
- Depending on the ways of usage of the generated electrical power
a) private sources of electrical power;
b) connected to an independant grid
c) connected to the distribution grid
Ministry of regional development and public works
www.mrrb.government.bg
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