The Act regulates the rights and obligations of participants in the renewable electricity market and conditions of support for the purchase and registration of electricity production from renewable sources.

ilustační foto větrný parkThe purpose of the Act is to support the use of renewable sources of energy, i.e. wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, water energy, soil energy, air energy, biomass energy, landfill gas energy, sewage gas energy and biogas energy. The purpose of the Act is also constant increasing of the share of renewable sources in the consumption of primary energy sources, economical use of natural resources and meeting of an indicative target of the share of electricity produced from renewable sources in the gross consumption of electricity in the Czech Republic at 8 % by 2010.

The support applies to the production of electricity from renewable sources generated in facilities in the Czech Republic using renewable sources and it has been determined differently subject to the type of a particular renewable source, level of installed capacity of the generating plant and also, for instance, by parameters of biomass. The support applies also to the production of electricity from mine gas from closed mines.

The Act regulates the rights and obligations of participants in the renewable electricity market, conditions of support, purchase and registration of renewable electricity, setting the prices for renewable electricity separately for individual types of renewable sources and green bonuses, the manner of regular assessment of the share of electricity produced from renewable sources in the gross consumption of electricity for the previous calendar year and the calculation of anticipated impacts of support on the overall price of electricity for end customers in the next calendar year. The Act also provides for the performance of controls through the National Energy Inspection and the amount of individual penalties for administrative delicts.

The second and third part of the Act contains a list of Acts which are subsequently being amended, namely Act No. 406/2000 Coll., on energy management, as amended by Act No. 359/2003 Coll. and Act No. 694/2004 Coll., and Act No. 86/2002 Coll. on protection of the air and on amendment to some other Acts, as amended by Act No. 521/2002 Coll., Act No. 92/2004 Coll., Act No. 186/2004 Coll. and Act No. 695/2004 Coll.

The fourth part of the Act stipulates the effective date. The Act comes into effect on the first day of the third calendar month following the date of its promulgation, i.e. as from 1 August 2005.