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As of April 1, 2024, the basic contribution for installations up to 5 kilowatts (kW) will be abolished. The power contribution for integrated, attached and free-standing installations with a capacity of less than 30 kW and the power contribution for attached and free-standing installations from 100 kW are reduced by CHF 20 each.
As a result, the total compensation for smaller and more expensive systems will fall more than that for larger systems, the Swiss Federal Office for Energy (SFOE) wrote about the consultation opened by the Ministry of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK) on Monday . This should be an incentive for larger systems.
The National Ordinance Nuclear Energy Liability will also be amended from 2024, with a view to the decommissioning of nuclear power plants. During decommissioning, the hazard potential of an installation decreases continuously, the SFOE wrote. Without fuel elements, the hazard potential is comparable to that of a research reactor.
The applicable law on liability for nuclear energy does not yet take this into account. For example, operators of nuclear power plants must take out a liability cover of 1.2 billion euros during the decommissioning phase, up to the measurements.
The cover should now be 70 million euros once there are no more fuel elements in the plant. Later on, such plants could be exempted from the scope of the Paris Agreement and the Nuclear Energy Liability Act upon request.
The nuclear power plant Mühleberg BE, which has been shut down since the end of 2019, could soon meet the conditions for reduced coverage, according to the report on the amendment of the regulation. In the fourth quarter of the current year, all fuel elements have probably been transported to the temporary storage facility of Würenlingen AG.
Overall, the UVEK wants to amend four regulations: the Energy Regulation, the Energy Subsidy Regulation, the Pipeline Safety Regulation and the Nuclear Energy Liability Regulation. The consultation will last until July 7, 2023.
(SDA)
Source:Blick
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