The Ministry of Energy will allocate another 150 million euros for electricity storage batteries, as it appears from a call for projects launched in public consultation.
According to a press release of the institution, sent to AGERPRES on Saturday, the general objective pursued by this call is to support investments in the development of electrical energy storage capacities (batteries) produced from renewable energy sources (solar, wind and hydroelectric energy), capable of operating independent.
The call is carried out in the form of a competitive bidding procedure, with only one criteria for ranking the offers, the amount of state aid requested in euros/MWh, and the period for submitting project proposals for the construction of electricity storage facilities will be announced on the official website of the Ministry of Energy.
"We have the same motto as in the first mandate: investments, investments, investments. I will repeat ad infinitum: each investment project, each additional MW in the national energy system means Romania's chance to have lower bills for Romanians and Romanian companies. More , all of this will bring us closer to the zero objective: the energy independence of the country, the elimination of imports and the transformation of Romania into a large producer at the European level. It is about the security and well-being of the Romanians, but also about the contribution that Romania must make in the European effort to get rid of the energy blackmail from Moscow and the dependence on the Russian energy resources with all the decades of compromises in this direction.I said that storage is the zero priority of the Romanian energy system I did the right thing: I signed contracts for storage capacities with financing from PNRR - 80 million euros, I launched the call from the Modernization Fund for "behind the meter" batteries, for existing solar and wind farms - 150 million euros and now we are preparing to launch another call, for another 150 million euros, also from the Modernization Fund, also non-refundable money, for standalone batteries, i.e. for balancing the national system," declared, in the quoted press release, the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja.
He added that Romania's goal is to have, in the next two years, at least 1,000 MW of storage in batteries, "exactly as much as we could have, today, at Tarnita - Lapustesti, a project that we also removed from drawer and where I restarted the whole process, after decades of forgetting".
The potential beneficiaries of the new Scheme can be: economic operators - micro-enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, but also large enterprises (including newly established enterprises) and autonomous Kingdoms, legally constituted in accordance with national legislation or in accordance with the specific legislation of the member state of whose nationality they hold, and registered at ONRC in Romania until the date of the first payment from the state aid granted under this scheme, of whose projects for the construction, on the territory of Romania, of new energy storage capacities from renewable energy sources were selected as winners based on a competitive bidding procedure.
The total budget of the state aid scheme represents the equivalent in lei of 150 million euros and represents non-refundable amounts from the Modernization Fund.
Moreover, the Ministry of Energy emphasizes that it is considering the promotion of battery projects for the year 2025, financed from this Fund, the investment will require the confirmation of the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The deadline for submitting comments on this Scheme is February 17, 2025.
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