site.btaSolar Power Plant Owners Stage National Protest, Temporarily Block Sofia-Ruse Road

Owners of solar power plants (SPP) staged a national protest on Wednesday, blocking the Sofia-Ruse Road at the cloverleaf interchange of the village of Yasen near Pleven for some 20 minutes at 9 a.m. The owners resent the newly introduced Methodology for Determining Balancing Electricity Prices which, in their opinion, has led to exorbitant prices for balancing energy and dooms to bankruptcy the renewable energy sources sectors, endangers the financial security of the market and the security of the entire energy system.