RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES. SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE APPROACH OF ENERGY CROPS AT NATIONAL LEVEL TO THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT

Abstract

The new climatic, industrial, economic and social realities, as well as their evolving perspectives, have led in the last decades to a particularly careful approach to renewable energy sources. Thus, clear objectives for ensuring public regulations and policies favoring the development and use of energy from renewable sources have been set out. Romania has rallied to the European model that aims to ensure energy security with competitive and clean energy. The statistical data show that the progress is considerable and that Romania has mastered the objectives and targets thus assumed. One of the current challenges is to ensure a unitary development of all renewable energy sources that have potential at national level for sustainable development. Among these, special attention is paid to biomass, especially to energy crops. The justification consists, on the one hand, of the very low level of development compared to the actual capacities, and, on the other hand, the intervention of some legislative changes that seem to continue to hinder this development.

Keywords

• renewable energy
• sources
• European objectives
• European policies
• energy security
• clean energy
• biomass
• energy crops