Joint declaration signed
In future Slovenia, Spain and Germany want to cooperate more closely in promoting renewable energies. Federal Environment Minister Gabriel, Slovenian Minister of the Economy Andrej Vizjak and Spanish Secretary General for Energy at the Ministry of Industry, Ignasi Nieto Magaldi signed a joint declaration at the European Renewable Energy Policy Conference in Brussels. Slovenia thus became the third state to join the international cooperation of countries promoting the increased use of renewable energies based on feed-in regulations.
"Germany, Spain and Slovenia all have regulations on feed-in tariffs in place, for example the German Renewable Energy Sources Act. These regulations have proved to be the most efficient and most effective instruments for promoting renewable energy sources as means of electricity generation" said Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel. The aim of the cooperation is to learn from a more intensive exchange of experience, to keep optimizing the instruments for the promotion of renewable energies and to give support to other countries that are introducing such a system.
For this purpose three workshops have already been carried out: two in Madrid and one in Berlin. In addition, several scientific reports were drawn up within the framework of this international cooperation. One of the reports, for example, compares the German and the Spanish system of feed-in tariffs. Furthermore, the systems were assessed with regard to efficiency and effectiveness and compared with other policy instruments such as quota systems. The latest study analyses and assesses the design options for regulations on feed-in tariffs.
Further information is available on the Internet at: www.feed-in-cooperation.org .