Regulation on establishing final consumption of renewable energy in transports to be published in Moldova's Official Journal

Chisinau, 21 May /MOLDPRES/ - The regulation on the establishment of the end consumption of energy from renewable sources in transports, approved by the government, will be published in the Official Journal (Monitorul Oficial) on 22 May.  

The regulation’s goal is to ‘’establish a transparent, clear and unequivocal mechanism for determining the final consumption of energy from renewable sources in transports, as well as of the share of energy from renewable sources in the final consumption of energy in transports, in line with the requirements specific established in the article 7 and 8 of the Law from 2016 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources.’’    

Thus, the document establishes the components and way of establishing the final consumption of energy from renewable sources in transports; the components and way of establishing the overall final consumption of energy in transports; way of establishing the share of energy from renewable sources in the final consumption of energy in transports.  

At the same time, the cabinet also approved an annex to this regulation, which includes a list of types of raw material for the production of biofuels, in relation to which specific provisions are enforced. Under the annex, the contribution of biofuels produced from the following types of raw material is regarded to be double, in order to establish the quantity of energy from renewable sources used in transports: straw; stable manure and the purifying mud; effluents coming from factories of palm oil, empty bunches of palm fruits; pitch of the thallus oil; gross glycerin; waste coming from the processing of sugar cane; marc of grapes and wine yeast; shells of fruits with wooden shell; chaff; cob cleaned of maize grains; fraction of biomass from waste, etc.        

Source: www.monitorul.md