On 25 June this year, the website of the Union of Rural Municipalities of the Republic of Poland (ZGWRP) published an opinion on the draft amendment to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources.
In its position, the Management Board of ZGWRP points out that the draft act lacks solutions dedicated to distributed energy and its forms, such as energy clusters, energy cooperatives, etc. The draft act lacks solutions dedicated to distributed energy and its forms.
Simplified legal regulations for these entities in the scope are particularly expected:
- internal energy distribution with tariffs,
- cooperation with distribution network operators,
- investment facilitation related to the placement of elements (sources) within the framework of the regulations on spatial management,
- support for the functioning of „collective prosumers”.
The ZGWRP is critical of maintaining the 10h distance criterion in the draft amendment and calls for an amendment to the Act on Wind Power Plant Investments aimed at reducing the permissible distance in the local spatial development plan by a resolution of the municipal council by a majority of 3/5 of votes in the presence of at least half of the statutory council composition.