Sponsoring SHP with 215 million a year – Bergens Tidende

The proposal being promoted today, but will not come into force until 1 January 2016. The government is dependent on support from KrF or Left in Parliament, and the extension of the certificate scheme must also be negotiated with Sweden.

Power price increases

Green certificates provide small hydro plants 15 cents extra per kilowatt hour, which will provide an annual cost of around 215 million. According Småkraft Association means that households with a consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours per year, will receive an increase in the electricity bill of 50 million a year.

– Many SHP owned by local small landowners. They were betrayed by the coalition government which promised that they would join the scheme. But they met never. The result is that many are in a deeply distressed situation, says parliament Oskar Grimstad (FRP).

Personal tragedies

– They are in danger of having to go from farm and land. There are several personal tragedies as a result of this the violation, he said.

– But now rectified this. For us it is also a moral question. We meet what is promised and what we went in the previous parliamentary term, says Conservative Bjørn Lødemel.

– I think many small power plants can now saved and that they can be refinanced, he said.

Got omitted

The two energy politicians from coalition parties say that the owners of small hydro plants will be able to retrieve from 500,000 to 800,000 per year from the green certificate scheme.

Power plants that were built in the years 2004 to 2009 were excluded from the scheme when it was adopted. There are plants with a power output of between 1 and 10 MW.

When Småkraft Association made up status of the landowner owned power plants last year, they found that 15 were technically bankrupt, 24 with deficit and 31 did not take out dividends or paid wages to involved.

Sold lifework

“With the low power prices situation becomes worse month by month, and many count the buttons how long they dare to continue,” wrote Association in a memorandum in November this year.

It says that many small power plants is sold for economic reasons:

“Last out was Sværen Kraft in Balestrand, where landowners recently had to throw in towel and sell lifework. ” Buyer was S.Fj. energy.

Småkraft Association also shows that German stakeholders bought a package of 33 small hydropower plants in 2013.