Focus on Energy, 2010 - Karanovic & Nikolic

79The status of the Qualified Producer is to be granted by the Agency for a period of 12 years. Producers ofenergy having the status of Qualified Producer are to be entitled to privileged purchase prices for electricityand priority treatment with respect to accessing both the transmission grid and the distribution grid.Prices for the energy produced out of RES should be established in accordance with the tariff system forthe production of energy from RES and CHP which should be issued by the Government.A system of subsidized prices for RES is to be set up so that a supplier of energy will be required topurchase energy produced from RES (under the privileged prices), in proportion to the participation ofthe quantities of electric energy supplied to its customers in accordance with the methodology to beestablished by the Government’s regulation.FOCUS ON ENERGYThe final customers, on the other hand, will be required to pay a fee to cover the incentive for the investmentin the RES and CHP to the supplier through their electricity bills (which are to clearly state theamount of the fee, separately from the price of energy consumed).FEED-IN TARIFFSAt the time this Book went into print, the Montenegrin Government had prepared the draft proposaloutlining the Methodology for the Calculation of the Price of Electricity Produced from Renewable EnergySources (the “Draft Proposal”). The Draft Proposal aims at establishing the mandatory pricesunder which the Montenegrin suppliers of energy are to be required to purchase electricity from theQualified Producers.Under the Regulation, the proposed price for energy produced in wind plants is to be EUR 95.99 perMWh, for 2010. For energy produced in small HPPs (up to 10 MW) the price will depend on the annualproduction of energy and will range from EUR38 per MWh (for an annual production above 15 GW) toEUR 114.41 per MWh (for an annual production up to 0.5 GW). For electricity produced out of biomass,the proposed prices will depend on the type of biomass and are to be set at EUR 123.10 per MWh forwood, and EUR 137.06 per MWh for agricultural biomass.