The small producers of Aeolian energy consider it is not right to oblige them to assume financial responsibility towards the transmission system operator for the imbalances resulting as deviations from the coordinated timetables. This is provided in a decision of the Administration Board of the National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER) that was proposed for public debates. In a letter addressed to President Maia Sandu and the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, they note the provisions substantially disadvantages the small producers of Aeolian (renewable) energy against other participants in this market, IPN reports.
The letter signed by 20 companies says that the power installed at Aeolian plants managed by producers of Aeolian energy at the end of 2020 was of 47.1 MW (21 producers, 37 Aeolian turbines), which generates less than 1% of the total electric power consumption in the Republic of Moldova. The methods for assessing the values contracted and generated by producers of Aeolian energy are not comparable with those of other participants in the electricity market, such as providers and system operators. At the current stage, all the produces provide oral information about the produced and delivered energy. In the case of suppliers and system operators, there will be applied calculation models with a high level of uncertainty.
The letter also says that the producers of Aeolian energy continuously face the bureaucracy of system operators, while the existing regulations and the NAER’s involvement in this process are inefficient.
The small producers of Aeolian energy consider the conditions stipulated in the draft decision seriously affect the activity of producing Aeolian renewable energy and will inevitably lead to the stagnation of investments and their bankruptcy. Therefore, they ask to be excepted from them.
