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The intention of the Slovak government is to focus on lowering the fixed
prices for electricity produced from RES, thus shifting biogas/biomethane to
other sectors like the space heating and transport sector, taking the
available potential for biogas/biomethane in Slovakia into consideration;
The New Legal Act in the context of the forthcoming large amendment to
the Act on the promotion of renewable energy and high-efficiency
cogeneration - which should come in to force from Jan. 1 st 2014-
intends to support construction of small agricultural biogas plants, in order
to also support rural development;
Energy from RES must substitute 10% of energy used as petrol, diesel and
biofuels consumed in road and rail transport and electricity used in all forms
of transport by 2020 while the share of energy from biofuels produced from
cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more
than the final consumption of energy in transport by end of 2011 in 2020 or
5% of the energy used in transport in 2020, respectively;
The Development of the CBG market is not possible without development of
the CNG market. As CNG market is not very well developed (11 filling
stations of which only 8 ones are public and about 1 500 vehicles of which
300 are buses – Urban transport), it creates one of the barriers for the CBG
market development;
High initial investment costs for biogas/biomethane production facilities,
missing long-term feedstock availability with predictable prices, insufficient
effective national legal frameworks and policies and support schemes on
both national and regional level, missing harmonised EU standards for
biomethane use in transport and for injection into natural gas grids,
missing mutually recognised guarantees of origin and procedures for
international trade of biomethane are the main hurdles for further
development of the biogas/biomethane market;
There is a need for further constructive input concerning the development
of the National Road Map in Slovakia;
The final version of the National Road Map for Biomethane will be sent
together with GGG Guide for decision makers to all decision makers on both
national and local level.
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