Electricity label
The role of the electricity label and the goals of its achievement
The Electricity Label is the document specifying the structure of the primary energy sources used for the generation of the supplied electricity, offering information about the impact of the respective sources on the environment..
Beginning with January 1ts, 2005, according to ANRE, the Labelling of the Electricity Supplied to Customers Guideline is applied. This guideline provisions the fact that, once a year, the electricity suppliers have to elaborate the label concerning the structure of the primary energy sources used for the generation of electricity supplied to customers during the previous calendar year, as well as the resulting polluting emissions.
The electricity labels are printed and sent by the electricity suppliers to the customers that supply contracts have been concluded with until the 15th of April each year, for the purpose of:
- Increasing the customer information level in view of choosing the supplier;
- Increasing the transparency on the electricity market;
- Promoting renewable energy sources and clean technologies;
- Reducing the impact of the electricity sector on the environment.
Definitions of the terms in the table
Electricity supplier
It is the legal person holding a supply license ensuring electricity feeding services to one or more customers based on a supply contract.
Renewable energy sources
They represent the non-fossil energy sources, like wind, solar, geothermal, waves and tide, hydro, biomass energy, energy comprised in the landfill gas (also called storage gas), energy from sewage treatment plant gas and biogas.
Electricity produced from renewable energy sources
It is the electricity generated by the electrical power plants using only renewable energy sources, as well as the electricity generated in hybrid power plants also using conventional energy sources, including the electricity consumed by the storage systems of the conventional energy carriers and excluding the electricity obtained from these systems.
CO2 specific emissions
They refer to the quantity of carbon dioxide resulting from the generation of an electricity unit, expressed in g/kWh.
