Balgarianovinite.com Environmental product fees paid by businesses in Bulgaria for solar panels and lithium-ion batteries are two to 90 times higher than in other EU Member States, Meglena Rusenova, Chair of the Bulgarian Photovoltaic Association, told a news conference at BTA’s National Press Club on Tuesday.
This drives up investment and production costs, with product fees paid by Bulgarian businesses directly affecting the price of goods. According to Rusenova, the issue is not Bulgaria’s membership in the eurozone, but opaque procedures, lack of competition and unclear rules that force Bulgarian businesses and consumers to pay disproportionately high fees. She proposed that the environmental product fees for solar panels and batteries be aligned with those in Bulgaria’s neighbours Romania and Greece, or at least kept within the range of average European prices.
Nikola Gazdov, Chairman of the Association for Production, Storage and Trading of Electricity, said that renewable energy helps regulate spikes in electricity prices, with Bulgaria now having nearly 6 gigawatts of solar capacity. The growing number of energy storage systems helps keep electricity prices extremely low during the day and in some cases, even zero, he added. “Batteries help us store the electricity produced during the day and use it at night,” he said. Given the current geopolitical situation, this is becoming critically important, he said.
Gazdov noted, however, that product fees in Bulgaria artificially increase the cost of this otherwise cheap electricity. He said the Environment Ministry should amend one of its ordinances and reduce product fees for photovoltaics and batteries to average European levels. He called for product fees to be reduced to the European average: around EUR 50-80 per tonne for recycling solar panels and EUR 300-500 per tonne for recycling energy storage systems. He stressed that, when calculating what is recycled in batteries, only the electrolyte and the electrochemical components should be taken into account. Businesses in Bulgaria Pay Up to 90 Times Higher Environmental Product Fees for Solar Panels, Batteries than Other EU Countries 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-17 18:09:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law