The European Commission has found Romania's plan to support the production of energy from renewable energy sources in line with EU state aid rules, in particular, because it creates clear incentives for an increased use of renewable energy such as, for example, the system of green certificates.

"The green certificate scheme is a market based mechanism, which will encourage investments in renewable energy in Romania. It will thus support Romania's objective to reach the 2020 renewable energy targets without unduly distorting competition" says European Commission Vice-President in charge of competition policy Joaquin Almunia.

Green certificates are granted to electricity producers for each MWh generated from wind, hydro, biomass, landfill gas,

sewage plant treatment gas or solar.If the energy is produced in high efficiency co-generation plants, a bonus is applied.
The number of green certificates will vary depending on the type of source used to produce energy, in fact it goes: one,

for energy produced from anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge and waste, two, for wind and hydro energy, three, for biomass from energy crops and six, for solar energy.

The certificates issued by the state to the producers can be sold to the energy suppliers on a specific market (independent

of the electricity market). The electricity suppliers have the obligation to acquire annually a certain number of green

certificates. If they fail to do so they must pay a penalty.The penalties are collected by the transmission system operator and transferred to the Romanian Environmental Fund, which will use them for support to small individual producers of electricity from renewable sources. The beneficiaries of green certificates will be able to enter the scheme until 31 December 2016, Agerpres informs.