Installations) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2012

L.N. 236 of 2012

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Feed-in Tariffs (Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic

Installations) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by sub-article (1) of article

28 of the Malta Resources Authority Act, the Minister for Resources

and Rural Affairs, after consultation with the Malta Resources

Authority has made the following regulations

The title of these regulations is the Feed-in Tariffs Citation.

(Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations)

(Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2012, and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Feed-in Tariffs (Electricity Generated from S.L. 423.46.

Solar Photovoltaic Installations) Regulations, hereinafter referred to

as "the principal regulations".

In regulation 12 of the principal regulations, immediately Amends

after the words "In the case of change of use of premises during the regulation

the principal

period of guaranteed payment of the feed-in tariff established by these regulations.

regulations" there shall be added the words "or in the case of the

transfer of the location of the solar photovoltaic installation to a

premises with a different use".

In item 4 of the First Schedule to the principal regulations Amends the First

the words "each kW" shall be substituted by the words "each kWp". Schedule

principal

regulations.

The Second Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a)

in item 1 thereof, for the words "Electricity Amends the

generated exclusively by solar photovoltaic installations Second

to the principal

installed on residential or domestic premises in accordance with regulations.

regulation 3 and exported to the distribution system up to a

threshold of 4800kWh/annum." there shall be substituted the

words "Electricity generated exclusively by solar photovoltaic

installations installed on residential or domestic premises in

accordance with regulation 3 and exported to the distribution

system up to an annual threshold calculated as kWp multiplied

by 1600kWh, provided that the product of such calculation

shall not exceed 4800kWh per annum.";

(b)

in item 2 thereof, for the words "Electricity

generated exclusively by solar photovoltaic installations

installed on non-residential premises or institutional households

in accordance with regulation 3 and exported to the distribution

system up to a threshold of 160,000kWh." there shall be

substituted the words "Electricity generated exclusively by solar

photovoltaic installations installed on non-residential premises

or institutional households in accordance with regulation 3 and

exported to the distribution system up to an annual threshold

calculated as kWp multiplied by 1600kWh, provided that the

product of such calculation shall not exceed 160,000kWh per

annum.";

(c)

immediately after item 2 thereof, there shall be

added the following new item

"3. For the purposes of the First Schedule and

this Schedule, "kWp" shall mean the total peak power

of an array or arrays of photovoltaic modules as

specified in the notification or authorisation

application submitted to the Authority for its approval

under the Electricity Market Regulations."; and

(d)

in items 1 and 2 of the Second Schedule to the

principal regulations, the words "in the years 2010, 2011 and for

the first six months of 2012" wherever they occur, shall be

substituted by the words "in the years 2010, 2011 and the first

nine months of 2012".

In the Fourth Schedule to the principal regulations, the

words "for the year 2011" shall be substituted the words "for the year

2011 and the first nine months of 2012".

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