Moldova aims to ensure at least 17% of the final gross consumption of energy from renewable sources until 2020, IPN reports, quoting the bill on the use of renewable energy, which was approved by the Government.
Given the country’s 95% dependence on the import of energy sources and the energy intensity that is about three times higher than in the developed countries, the use of energy from renewable sources will contribute to increasing the state’s energy security, it is said in the informative note to the bill.
The use of such renewable sources as the solar power, wind, biomass and other residues and waste for producing electricity, biofuel and biogas offer considerable environment advantages given the increased potential of decreasing emissions of greenhouse gases in the energy production process and in the utilization process.
The bill ensures the framework needed to attract foreign investments to the renewable energy sector. The document stipulates the method of calculating the share of renewable energy in the total energy consumption and in sectors of the economy, and describes the powers of the institutions implementing state policies in the field, the state policy principles and objectives in the are of renewable sources of energy.
