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Law on Energy
The Law on Energy defines renewable energy sources as energy derived from natural resources, such as hydropower, solar and wind energy, biomass energy and energy which flows out from the centre to the surface of the earth, i.e. geothermal energy. The Law on Energy stipulates…
Law on Promotion of Biological Fuels Production and Use (No. 1391-VI)
Main objectives of the Law on Promotion of Biological Fuels Production and Use No. 1391-V is to save fossil fuels, decrease Ukraine’s dependency from energy imports, increase its energy security and decrease the negative impact on the environment caused by burning fossil…
Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme
The Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme promotes the efficient use of biomass for energy, and in particular the use of energy crops by stimulating the early deployment of biomass-fuelled heat and electricity generation projects. It awards capital grants towards the cost of…
Alternative and Renewable Energy Policy, 2011 (Medium term policy)
In 2011, the Alternative and Renewable Energy Policy (2006) was updated by the Medium Term Policy. The Alternative and Renewable Energy (ARE) Policy 2011 aims to: harmonize ARE-related efforts of various Government bodies; increase ARE deployment; introduce incentives to…
Regulatory framework for renewables
The following bylaws were adopted in the period 2010-2011: 1- Rulebook on criteria for issuance of energy license , content of a request and register of energy licenses. 2- Rulebook on types and clasification of power plants that use renewable energy and high efficiency…
Energy Law
The Energy Law aims to adapt the conditions of the energy sector to the new requirements of the European Union (EU) and prepare for participation in the regional electricity market in South-East Europe and in the Euro-Atlantic integration. The Energy Law states that the…
Samoa National Energy Policy
The vision of the Samoa National Energy Policy is to enhance the quality of life for all its citizens though reliable, affordable and environmentally sound energy access. The goal of the Policy is to increase the contribution of renewable energy for energy services and supply…
Energy law
Energy Law is providing outline and regulates energy sector as a whole. Its general objective is to ensure reliable, secure and quality energy supply; safe supply to the customers; to create conditions for constructing new energy facilities and to create economic, commercial and…
PROSOL Residentiel: Incentives for solar water heaters
Launched in 2005, the PROSOL II programme offers incentives to those purchasing solar water heaters from certified suppliers and having them installed by certified installers. The incentive system comprises: A subsidy , of TND 200 for a solar water heater with 200L capacity, or…
Policy Guidelines for Small Power Plants in Private Sector
Private Sector Power Generation Policy of Bangladesh goal is to attract private investment in power sector for small
Energy Policy
In 2002, the Swedish government presented its Energy Policy Bill ?Co-operation for a Secure, Efficient and Environmentally-Friendly Energy Supply? (2001/02:143). This report, approved by Parliament, re-affirmed the countrys established energy policy objectives. The energy policy…
Electricity Supply Act
The 1976 Electricity Supply Act provided the framework for the control of the electricity sector, where only licensed companies were allowed to produce, transmit and distribute electricity through the public grids. The Minister of Energy was authorised to use security of supply…
Law on Renewable Energy Sources
Law on Renewable Energy Sources regulates sector of renewable energies in Belarus. The Law introduces to the legislative framework basic definitions of renewable technologies, defines rights and responsibilities of RES producers, defines list of authorities responsible for…
Renewable Energy National Fund
Established on the basis of Renewable Energy Promotion in the Framework of Sustainable Development (Law 04-90). Fund was created in 2009.…
National Renewable Action Plan (NREAP)
Under the EU Directive 2009/28/EC member countries of the European Union are obliged to draft and submit to the European Commission National Renewable Action Plans (NREAPs) outlining pathway which will allow them to meet their 2020 renewable energy, energy efficiency and GHG…
Decision on the amount of the fee to encourage electricity generation from renewable energy sources and efficient co-generation, Republic of Srpska
The Decision establishes the fee for encouraging electricity generation from renewable sources and efficient cogeneration in the accordance with the provisions of the “Rule Book on incentives for generation of electricity from RES and in efficient co-generation” and “Decision on…
Iceland Climate Change Strategy
In February 2007, the Icelandic government released "Icelands Climate Change Strategy", which superseded the countrys 2002 Climate Change Strategy (itself the second Icelandic climate change strategy). This strategy is conceived as a framework for action and government…
Tanzanian Energy Development Access Programme (TEDAP)
The Tanzanian Energy Development Access Programme (TEDAP), a co-operation project between the Tanzanian Ministry of Energy and the World Bank, aims to improve electricity service provision in urban centres and to establish basis for sustainable energy access in rural areas.…
Investment Aid for Biogas and Other Renewable Gases
Since 2010, the Swedish government has allocated funds in order to support market introduction of new technology solutions that increase the profitability and production of biogas. It is intended to promote more efficient and expanded production, distribution and use of biogas…
Investment Aid for Solar Photovoltaic Cells Connected to the Grid
The possibility of applying for investment support for solar photovoltaic (PV) cells connected to the grid was introduced on 1 July 2009. In February 2013, a new ordice on state aid for solar PV cells came into force, prolonging the support until 2016. The purpose is to…
Implementation of the Sustainability Criteria of the Renewables Directive
The Swedish Act on sustainability criteria for biofuels and bioliquids (SFS 2010:598) came into force on 1 August 2010 in order to implement the provisions concerning sustainability criteria according to the EU Renewables Directive. The criteria include requirements on decreased…
Voluntary Certification of Installers of Certain Heating Systems
The Act on Certification of Installers of Certain Heating Systems (SFS 2012:838) came into force on 31 December 2012 and is based on Article 14 of the Renewables Directive. The certification is performed on a voluntary basis and is common to all EU member
Roll-out of 10% bioethanol blend
Mandates the use of ethanol blended fuel for motor engines throughout the island, with the exception of marine fuels. It phases out the use of the environmentally harmful petroleum-based Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE). Has created a guaranteed national market for ethanol of…
Development and Deployment of Utility Scale Renewable Power Plant
The goal of the program is to deploy solar and wind energy generation technologies as part of the electricity generation inventory of Kuwait. The program is launched with the Shagaya RE Park project which is to be implemented on 100 km² site in the north western part of Kuwait…
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Department
The Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy was created in 2006. In 2012 it was renamed Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Law on creating facilitating conditions for the construction of new sources of electricity generation (Law No. 8987)
Investors building new energy plants of not less than 5MW energy generation capacity are excluded from payment of customs taxes for the machinery and equipment that are part of the object of the production of
Sectorial Policy of Energy
It is a document of orientation on the general energy policy. This document comes as a replacement from the Letter of Development policy of the Sector of the Energy dating 2000 and which did not put a particular accent on the new energies as the bioenergy and the biofuels. The…
Rural Electrification Policy
The Fiji Rural Electrification Policy 1993 has been used by the Fiji Department of Energy in the implementation of rural electrification projects which includes diesel schemes for villages, micro hydro projects, house wiring, biofuel projects, solar home systems and grid…
Adopt an appropriate pricing policy for the energy sector (Policy no. 7, Maldives National Energy Policy and Strategy 2010)
Background: In Maldives, the energy pricing structure follows a top-down approach. The Ministry of Economic Development sets energy prices, which are implemented by most local bodies with minor adaptations. However, electricity pricing is a little nore diffused for the…
Act 2003 establishing Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission
On the basis of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) Act, 2003 the Commission was established in April 2004. The Commission’s objectives are as follow: Promote competition in the energy sector; Promote transparency in management, operation, operation and tariff…
Increase national energy security (Policy no. 4, Maldives National Energy Policy and Strategy 2010)
Background: Energy security for a small island nation such as the Maldives can only be achieved through diversification of the country's energy resources to reduce our dependence on imported fuels. The burden of rising global oil prices is compounded by the fact that the…
Solar Power Subsidy
In September 2007, the Ugandan government announced a 45% subsidy - increased from 14% - on all solar power equipment. The offer, made by government, the Private Sector Foundation of Uganda and nine donor agencies comes six years after the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) was…
Law of self-generation (Law 16.08)
Law 16.08, voted in 2008, raised the ceiling for self-generation by industrial sites from 10MW to 50MW. The Law was conceived principally to support wind power, but applies equally to other renewable energy technologies. This Law amends the 1963 Decree that established ONE and…
National Agency for the Development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency 16.09
In the context of reforming and enhancing the Moroccan energy sector, the government passed a law in January 2010 establishing the National Agency for the development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. This agency will replace the current Centre for the Development of…
Large-scale renewable energy development project (PERGE)
The project aims to develop initial experience in commercial grid-connected renewable energy applications by supporting the construction of a 101 MW Independent Power Producing wind farm , while building institutional capacity to value, acquire, and manage such resources on a…
Grid interconection contract for renewable energy (Contrato de interconexión para fuente de energía renovable)
In September 2001, the regulatory authority CRE established special rules on establishing transmission charges, and other issues relating to feeding and transmitting into the national grid intermittent electricity from renewable energy sources. These apply to solar, wind and…
Public Electricity Service Law (Ley del Servicio Público de Energía Eléctrica)
This law deals with all aspects of electric energy for public service, including generation, transmission, distribution, transformation and supply. The law establishes that public electricity service is of the exclusive competence of the Mexican State, through the national…
Methodology to value the externalities associated with the Electricity Generation in Mexico
According to the Law for the use of Renewable Energy and Ficing of Energy Transition (LAERFTE), the Secretary of Energy in consultation with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Ministry of Health, are developing a methodology for…
Mandatory admixture of biofuel
In Latvia, only diesel with biodiesel content of 4.5–5% by volume of the total amount of end product, and petrol with 4.5–5% bioethanol content by volume of the total amount of petrol may be sold. The requirement on the mandatory admixture of 5% biofuel does not apply to Class…
Law 2005-82 on Energy Efficiency Fund (FNME)
The Energy Efficiency Fund guarantees public support to energy efficiency and renewable energy activties through the allocation of subsidies. According to the Art 2 of the present Law, the Fund is financed by a tax on first licence registration of touristic cars, according to…
Law 2009-7 on Energy Efficiency: Renewable Energy Provisions
The 2004 Energy Efficiency Law authorised energy companies producing electricity from co-generation to sell their production to the public utility STEG and transport it through the national grid. The present Law on Energy Efficiency widens this support framework by allowing any…
Promoting the knowledge level of deploying renewable energies with prominence of solar, fuel cell and geothermal energies
Related policies: Section B of the Islamic Republic of Iran general policies on energy sector: efforts to acquire new and renewable energy technology and knowhow and build power plants in the country using sources like wind, solar,fuel cell and geothermal. Section 9-1 of the…
Law and Decree on Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy
Law no. 2005-82, dated 15 August 2005, relating to energy conservation and renewable energy, has as its objectives to strengthen the rational use of energy, renewable energy deployment, and energy substitution. The rates and subsidies related to actions of the law were…
Decree 2009/362 on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Premiums
Tunisia's National Agency in charge of Energy Efficiency (ANME) provides energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment projects with a range of premiums once the project is running, in the form of refunds. Premiums allocated to renewable energy projects are set as follows:…
National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP)
National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) is the document setting the targets of use of renewable energy sources until 2020, as well as the manner of their achievement. Among other things, its aim is to enhance investments into the field of renewable energy sources.…
PROSOL Tertiary: Incentives for commercial solar water heaters
Following the success of the residential PROSOL programme, a special incentive programme targeting the tertiary sector was launched in June 2007. The programme will first primarily target hotels, and will expand to include public bath houses, private clinics, sports centres,…
Decree on rules of selling renewable electricity to the Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas (STEG)
The Decree sets the rules governing the sale of renewable electricity to the Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas (STEG). Entities from the industry, agriculture and commercial sectors that produce renewable electricity for their own consumption may sell the surplus to the…
Public Utilities Commission established
The purpose of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is to regulate the electricity, water, and telecommunications sectors in Belize to efficiently provide the highest quality services at affordable rates, ensuring the viability and sustainability of each sector. The…
Access for Small and Non-Conventional Power Producers: Short Law I and II
The Short Law I allows small power producers to participate in the spot market and connect to the distribution network, to promote private investment and participation in electricity production. The legislation guarantees all small power producers (< 9 MW) the right to sell…
Law on Heat Sector
The Law on Heat Sector was adopted in 2003 and amended twice in 2007 and 2009. The Law regulates management of the heat sector in Lithuania, the activities of the heat sector entities, their relations with heat consumers, interrelations and responsibilities. The objectives of…