During a solar thermal power seminar in Greece on Friday, an official from Greece's Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change announced that Greece's new policy framework in support of renewable energies will be brought up for public consultation very soon. Adding that the ministry aims to have the new policy framework brought into law by the beginning of July. The EU's Environmental and Energy State Aid Guidelines (EEGA) are the driving force behind the policy change, which state that the bloc's renewable energy generators need to sell their electricity in the market as of 2016. Member states are also obliged to replace their feed-in tariff (FiT) remuneration schemes for the support of renewable energy with market premiums that offer a top-up on the wholesale electricity price. However, PV plants below 500 KW are excluded from the market premiums obligation, allowing FiTs for these systems ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...