Despite a wide-spread belief that former communist states are not keen on adopting green initiatives, some of the EU's member states in the east are forging ahead with renewable energy policies, according to a representative from energy giant General Electric. Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic are particularly active in the field of renewable energy although Poland is lagging behind, says Rod Christie, General Electric president for central and eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS countries. "There is more wind generation in Romania, who only started two years ago, than there is in Poland who started 4-5 years ago." "Romania has implemented legislation, has a very good wind resource and we've seen what's now the largest onshore wind farm outside of the US being constructed there," he told this website.
Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic are particularly active in the field of renewable energy although Poland is lagging behind, says Rod Christie, General Electric president for central and eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS countries.
"There is more wind generation in Romania, who only started two years ago, than there is in Poland who started 4-5 years ago."
"Romania has implemented legislation, has a very good wind resource and we've seen what's now the largest onshore wind farm outside of the US being constructed there," he told this website.
Huh!? Dream on. In Hungary, two years ago wind was nearly stopped by capping the feed-in law (at last one major wind farm is in construction this year). The feed-in rate for PV was woefully insufficient. Energy policy is firmly in the hands of dinosaurs whose view of renewables is at the level of nineties anti propaganda. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
