Issue: № 6, 2026
Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2026.6.10p
The paper studies the comparative legal aspects of alternative energy regulation in accordance with Czech legislation. It is indicated that the Czech experience of legal regulation in the field of alternative energy is quite close to the Ukrainian one. The issues of defining the range of sources of electricity and other types of energy that are considered alternative energy sources, as well as the regulatory and legal principles for implementing regulation in the field of alternative energy are based on a special law on supported energy sources, despite the existence of a general law on energy. Both the Czech and Ukrainian laws on alternative energy regulate the concept of energy sources that are considered alternative energy sources, the features of state regulation in the field of alternative energy, and support for business entities that produce, sell and use energy generated from alternative sources. What is special in the Ukrainian practice of legal regulation of alternative energy compared to Czech legislation is, firstly, the use of the concept of "alternative energy sources" to refer to renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, and secondly, a narrower definition of the content of sources that are secondary energy sources, since Czech legislation includes any sources whose energy potential arises as a by-product during economic activity. Also, Ukrainian legislation on regulation in the field of alternative energy, on the one hand, defines all forms of such regulation at the level of one law, on the other hand, stimulating the production of energy from alternative sources applies only to electricity and only through the establishment and payment of a "green tariff", surcharges to it, and free performance of a number of works, unlike Czech legislation, which extends such support to producers of biomethane and thermal energy and provides for a wider list of forms of such support: providing a bonus for green electricity, an auction bonus or determining a preferential purchase price for the produced electricity, providing investment or operational thermal support, paying a bonus for green heat, a bonus for green biomethane.
Keywords : alternative energy, regulation in the field of alternative energy, stimulation of alternative energy, green tariff, Czech legislation
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