There is little demand for renewable energy sources in Slovakia. Experts blame a lack of publicinformation and not enough support schemes to promote the household use of renewableenergy.
In an interview with the Slovak Spectator, Ladislav Židek, the general director of Biomasa, an association that promotes the potential of biomass in Slovakia, said: “The awareness ofSlovaks about usage of renewable energy sources is still very low. Even the feworganisations that promote them are often disdained.”
According to Židek, this is because people tend to associate these organisations with andblame them for increasing prices.
“But it’s not renewable energy sources that are responsible [for the increase in electricity prices]after high subsidies were implemented several years ago,” Židek told the newspaper.
Also interviewed by the Slovak Spectator, Pavel Šimon, deputy director of the SlovakAssociation of Photovoltaic Industry, said there are only several thousand electricityproducers from renewable energy sources and combined production of energy andheat in Slovakia. “In the Czech Republic, there are more than 20,000 producers,” he noted.“Last year, the United Kingdom connected more than 125,000 roof power plants evenwhen they get less sun than we do.”
Nuclear power is the main source of electricity in Slovakia. The government has promised toincrease the use of renewable energy sources to 14% by 2020.
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