Romania must no longer make excesses regarding the legislation on the situation of prosumers and the authorization of photovoltaic parks located on agricultural land larger than 50 hectares in order not to cause, once again, energy security problems, said Antal Lorant, President of the Energy Commission, Senate Energy Infrastructure and Mineral Resources.
“We need to design a healthy balance considering also the needs of energy distributors, because if we do excesses again we will have energy security problems,” said Antal, at the 9th edition of the Energy Strategy Summit, an event organized by Energynomics.
He reviewed some of the regulations debated and approved by the committee he chairs and stated that many of the criticisms of these changes were unfounded.
According to Antal, “the most important move” was the Parliament’s modification of the Offshore Law, which basically paved the way for investors OMV Petrom and Romgaz to start extracting natural gas from the Neptun Deep perimeter in the Black Sea.
By amending the Land Fund Law, the commission created a simplified method of authorizing photovoltaic parks without PUZ for agricultural land areas smaller than 50 hectares, but the possibility of investors having access to capacities greater than 50 MW or 50 of hectares.
” Here we have to take into account energy security and the problems of imbalances, too”, added Antal.
He also said that Romania is the first country in the European Union to vote for the “law of the future”, i.e. the hydrogen law, which paved the way for the hydrogen treaty process and its use mixed with natural gas.
Energy Strategy Summit 2023 was organised by Energynomics with the support of ABB, ASTRASUN Solar, BCR, CEZ Romania, Eaton Electric, Electrica Furnizare, Electro Service RB, Elektra Renewable Support, EnergoBit, Enevo Group, E.ON, Finder, Huawei, MET România Energy, OMV Petrom, OX2 România, Phoenix Contact, Photomate, ProCredit Bank, REI Grup, Renomia Gallagher, Romgaz, Schneider Electric, Signify, Transelectrica, Taw Energy, Volt, WIKA, Wiren, Alexandrion Group, Aqua Carpatica, Klarmedia and Mobexpert.