Due to the submission of amendments to the Sejm on May 19 in the second reading of the amendments, the draft amendment to the RES Act, which, inter alia, changes the definition of a small installation and provides for the extension of RES support systems, returns to the energy, climate and assets committee. The amendments were submitted by Lewica and PSL.
The Left’s amendments concern, inter alia, changes in the definitions of an energy cooperative. The Left postulates that cooperatives could be established in communes regardless of their nature. Another amendment proposes to lower it from 70 percent. up to 50 percent part of the energy produced by the cooperative, which it must use for its own needs.
PSL, in turn, submitted amendments assuming an increase from 50 kW to 150 kW of the upper power limit of the prosumer installation and the establishment of the so-called discount for prosumers at the level of 0.9.
In the first reading, the definition of a hybrid RES installation was changed, introducing the requirement that at least 5 percent. electricity introduced into the grid over a year by a hybrid source had to come from an energy storage. Failure to meet this requirement by the winning source will result in the necessity to return the public aid granted in a given year.