BELGIUM RENEWABLES
April 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is has given Belgium two months in which to say how it will prevent Flanders' regional government from imposing distribution charges on imports of electricity from renewable energy resources, while not levying supplies from Flemish 'green' producers, that is directly placed on the national grid. The Commission alleges that this is "discrimination making 'green' electricity produced in other (European Union - EU) Member States much more costly than that produced domestically" and that as a result, "an unjustified barrier to the ...
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