“The impact of green certificate quota increase will most likely be of 5-6 lei for the renewable energy share in the bills. For the moment, it is hard to estimate the impact on the final value of the bill, as suppliers will have to buy the green certificates for last year in March, so that calculations will be carried out in April,” sources on the energy market told Mediafax.
For 2013, ANRE established a green certificate quota of 0.224 certificates per MWh, up 88.5% from 0.1188 green certificates per MWh in 2012.
Following the annual certificate quota hike, the green energy share in consumers’ bills might increase from RON34 to RON40, the sources stated.
According to the same sources, the annual certificate quota rose due to the fact that green energy production almost doubled compared with 2012, reaching 6,100 GWh.
Last year, a number of 9.9 million green certificates were traded, up 78.3% from 5.55 million certificates in 2012, on the backdrop of the sharp increase in the green energy production.