Community energy: Czech regulator issues guide to sharing electricity in apartment buildings

The Czech Energy Regulatory Office (ERÚ) has issued a guide on its website explaining how and under what conditions electricity generated in an apartment building can be shared among individual flats. Electricity sharing within an apartment building is possible following an amendment to the Electricity Market Rules Decree made by ERÚ last year. The amendment took effect on 1 January 2023.

Introducing community energy in Czechia

The Czech Republic is still lagging behind in implementing European energy legislation. Community energy, which has been frequently discussed recently, has been fully incorporated into European directives since 2019, having first been introduced by the European Commission in 2016.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MPO) sent a draft amendment introducing the concepts of an energy community and a renewable energy community to the Czech government at the turn of February and March this year. The policy proposal was presented in the second half of 2020, under the previous government, when Karel Havlíček was Minister of Industry and Trade. The amendment has therefore been a long time coming. Experts nevertheless consider the draft amendment to be of very high quality.