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Wind power plants double production of 2010 in six months
The wind power plants in Romania in the first six months of this year have produced the double of the total energy production of 2010, bringing 31 million euros to their owners.
The green energy producers have won thus in six months of 2011 more than in the entire 2010 from the support scheme granted by the Romanian state to these investments, Ziarul Financiar daily reads.
According to the data supplied by Transelectrica, the national electricity transporter, around 750,000 green certificates worth 41.2 million euros have been issued in the first six months of this year, 11 percent more compared with the value registered over the entire 2010, when over 676,000 such support instruments were issued for wind, solar, hydro and biomass energy production.
Compared with the first six months of 2010, the values are four times higher both in terms of green certificates issued and in terms of money collected by the green energy producers.
The green certificate represents the way in which the Romanian state chose to support the investments in renewable energy production, without this mechanism the wind power or solar power projects not being profitable. The big winners of this support scheme in the first six months of this year were the Czechs of CEZ, who own a wind power park at Fantanele, in the area of Dobrogea (southern-eastern Romania). The Czechs gained over 19 million euros only from these 'green papers,' and are followed by Energias de Portugal, with almost 6 million euros for two wind power parks in other two places in the same area.
The Transelectrica data also show that in the first six months of the year twice as much wind energy was produced compared with last year and almost 50 times more compared with the same period of last year, taking into account that the large wind power parks were connected to the network in the second half of 2010.
Overall, the 'windmills' produced over 559,000 MWh in the first six months of 2011, the consumption necessary for over 460,000 households in the same period.
According to Agerpres, last week, Romania received the European Commission's approval for the support scheme stipulated by Law 2202008 through which the number of green certificates allocated will differ depending on the technology used. Therefore, for example, instead of one single green certificate, regardless of the technology used, the wind energy producers will receive two and the solar energy producers will receive six certificates.