First reading of draft RES Act Amendment

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On 18 July 2019, the first reading of the government draft Act amending the act on renewable energy sources and some other acts took place. (Sejm print no. 3656).

During the first reading of the project, which was held at the meeting of the Sejm Energy and Treasury Committee, amendments were adopted, including:

  1. Resignation from the change in the nature of the auction contract (deletion of changes in article 93 paragraph 12)
  2. Extension of the FiP system to 2.5 MW also for hydropower
  3. Supplementing the exclusion of restrictions on the period of validity of certificates authorizing to submit offers in the auction system
  4. Changes in the definition of agricultural biogas in the scope of enabling the use of industrial wastewater