Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said on Wednesday that a new regulation regarding the rules for connecting to the electricity grids will be adopted by the end of the month, drawing attention to the fact that “less than 10%” of the projects for which technical connection permits (ATRs) were issued have actually advanced, while the remaining 90% “are speculative”, according to Hotnews.

According to the prime minister, ATRs have been issued for projects of 80,000 megawatts so far this spring, although the Romanian economy needs a daily power of only about 9,000 megawatts.

“Most of these technical connection approvals were issued in the last three years (…). We note that less than 10% of them have progressed. This means that 90% of these projects are speculative in nature. Those who obtained these projects do not intend to develop them, but aim to sell them. They would not be viable anyway, because, exceeding our consumption many times over, there is no one to sell this hypothetical energy to, perhaps we would also supply Central Europe, but it effectively blocks access to serious investors, who have financing and cannot connect”, declared Ilie Bolojan.

Bolojan specified that a debate on this topic will take place next week, and the Government will formulate a series of proposals to the Energy Regulatory Authority to be included in a new regulation.

Ilie Bolojan said that Spain “has unequivocal regulations and performs in the photovoltaic field”.

“It also had such a stage, 2019-2020. Noting a large number of speculative projects, they took serious measures and, today, this phenomenon is completely eliminated. This means that they imposed serious guarantees, for example, 40 euros per kilowatt of investment, which, if we translate into our language, we would have to put guarantees that amount to approximately 10% of the investment value, which are similar to the guarantees that builders must deposit,” he added.