Solar urban planning
The state of the art in Bulgaria
Entity: Djadadji EOOD
Developers Arjan Visser, Genady Kondarev
Date: 08.02.2010
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INDICE
Solar urban planning ...... 1 1 Political, Legal and Economic Framework ...... 3 1.1 Describe the National policy in force regarding energy and renewable energy technologies ...... 3 1.2 National thermal building energy certification or building regulations ...... 6 1.3 Existing national renewable/solar thermal/solar photovoltaic ordinances...... 7 1.4 Describe the available subsidies at national level to solar technologies adoption ...... 7 1.5 Financing mechanisms to solar technologies adoption...... 8 1.6 National barriers hindering solar technologies adoption ...... 9 2 Technical Framework ...... 11 2.1 Existing standards for solar systems and components ...... 11 2.2 Certification and other quality systems for solar systems products...... 11 2.3 Existing certification schemes for solar systems installers and planners...... 11 2.4 Are there R&D Centres working in solar technologies in your country? Please specify which and their working field. How is their interaction with the national solar market? Can they impulse the national solar market? 12 3 Solar Market and Potential...... 13 3.1 Installed solar (thermal/photovoltaic) capacity at national level...... 13 3.2 Effective contribution of solar energy (thermal/photovoltaic) for the national energy mix...... 13 3.3 Technical/economical potential at national level (thermal/photovoltaic)...... 14 3.4 Percentage of energy demand to be covered if such capacity would be reached (thermal/photovoltaic)...... 14 3.5 Are there renewable technologies which are widely diffused in your country and that can therefore contribute in a renewable obligation?...... 15 4 Stakeholders...... 15 4.1 Which are the stakeholders and networks involved in promoting solar urban planning and what is their attitude towards renewables obligation (e.g. are building companies used to renewables)? ...... 15
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1. Political, Legal and Economic Framework
1.1. Describe the National policy in force regarding energy and renewable energy technologies
According to the requirements of the Accession Treaty to EU Bulgaria has got the goal to produce 11% of its final energy consumption by renewable energy in 2010 and 16% of in 2020. The natural resources i.e. the potential for the development of energy from solar, wind, biomass, biogas and geothermal is large. Still (as many other EU member states) Bulgaria has not shown to be able to meet the 2010 target for renewable energy producing less than 8% of its electricity by RES, mainly from hydropower. Because of the steep decline of industrial production after the changes of 1989, Bulgaria is able to declare a very large reduction in the carbon emissions nowadays vis-à-vis the baseline. Moreover, as a country in difficult economic situation the targets of Bulgaria are related to the emissions of 1988 and not 1990 as the rest of the countries.
The main legislative acts regarding RES and particularly solar in Bulgaria include: In force since | Regulation Description amendments This law aims to regulate relations that promote the 19.06.2007 production and consumption of electricity, heat and / or 14.11.2008 cooling from renewable energy sources and alternative (amendment sources of energy production and consumption of through the biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport. Energy Renewable and Alternative Applicable to solar this act imposes: Efficiency Act) Energy Sources and Biofuels Act 1.priority accession of each producer of electricity from (RES and AEI act) = RES and AEI to the grid; 2.compulsory purchase of the electricity from RES 3.preferential Feed-In-Tariffs (FITs) on the purchase of 1 power output; 4.accession period not longer than requested by the developer deadline for commissioning the energy facility. Amendments through the EE Act 14.11.2008
1 http://www.mi.government.bg/eng/norm/rdocs/mdoc.html?id=212967
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