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Jahnatek: Energy Production From Renewable Sources to Be Toned Down
Tuesday 23 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 23 (TASR) - The production of energy from renewable sources should be toned down, as a large amount of such energy is destabilising the distribution network, Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek said at a session of the parliamentary committee for economic policy on Tuesday.
"I want to tame it somehow," said the minister (a Smer-SD nominee), adding that this is why he has submitted an amendment to Slovakia's Energy Act to Parliament, with the amendment being discussed at the committee session.
He stressed that he doesn't aim to go for drastic measures such as halting the further production of such energy but only wants to reduce it instead.
Jahnatek admitted that the ministry made a mistake when drafting the latest changes to respective legislation. "We did make one mistake, which I admit, that we didn't ask the investor or operator of facilities producing energy from renewable sources to provide support services [distribution - ed. note] at their own expense," said Jahnatek.
As a result, the distribution of energy produced from renewable sources is provided by distribution companies or the Slovak Electricity Transmission System (SEPS), and the distribution of large amounts of this kind of energy is placing a burden on the distribution system, said Jahnatek.
"Practice has made it clear that some things are rather difficult to predict. We really didn't foresee such massive interest (in producing this kind of energy)," he stated.
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