On Tuesday, May 2, the Verkhovna Rada adopted as a basis in the first reading bill No. 9011-d "On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Restoration and Green Transformation of the Energy System."
The document is intended to replace the current feed-in tariff model with a new Net Billing model, which will be focused on covering its own consumption, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, MP from the Golos faction, reports on Telegram.
The corresponding decision was supported by 251 people's deputies.
The Net Billing model will not lead to an increase in subsidies at the expense of other consumers.
The document suggests:
- providing the opportunity to receive a green tariff, at the level established during the commissioning of facilities, for renewable energy facilities damaged or destroyed during martial law, after their restoration;
- increasing the flexibility of the auction model to support the production of green energy, taking into account the world's leading experience;
- granting the right to export electricity produced from alternative energy sources, both by producers and by a guaranteed buyer;
- providing an opportunity to leave the balancing group of a guaranteed buyer for individual renewable energy facilities, and not for producers as a whole;
- determination of the National Commission, which carries out state regulation in the fields of energy and public utilities, as an entity authorized to issue guarantees of the origin of electrical energy produced from RES;
- establishment of legislative bases for the creation and functioning of the register of guarantees of the origin of green energy;
- implementation of the net billing system;
- determination of the conditions for the functioning of the mechanism of self-production;
- providing the possibility of connecting generating installations of third parties to the internal networks of an active consumer;
- extension for a year of the commissioning of renewable energy facilities or their construction phases, except for solar power plants, by business entities that have entered into contracts for the sale of electricity at a "green" tariff until December 31, 2019;
- extension for two years of the validity of the technical conditions for RES facilities, except for SES, issued to business entities that have concluded contracts for the sale of electricity at the "green" tariff until December 31, 2019.
The document has two alternative bills, namely:
- draft law No. 9011-1 "On amendments to certain laws of Ukraine on improving the conditions for supporting the production of electricity from alternative energy sources by consumer generating installations";
- draft law No. 9011-2 "On amendments to certain laws of Ukraine on stimulating an increase in the production of electricity from alternative energy sources by consumer generating installations".
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers registered in the Verkhovna Rada draft law No. 9011 "On improving the conditions for supporting the production of electricity from alternative energy sources by generating installations of consumers."
