Installations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2013

L.N. 139 of 2013

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Feed-in Tariffs (Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic

Installations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2013

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 28(1) of the Malta

Resources Authority Act, the Minister for Energy and the

Conservation of Water, 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, 2013, and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Feed-in Tariffs (Electricity S.L. 423.46

Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations) Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In the definition "roof-mounted", in regulation 2 of the Amends

principal regulations, immediately after the words "or other similar regulation

the principal

structures" there shall be added the words "when installed ground- regulations.

mounted".

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 12 of the principal Amends

regulations, immediately after the words "the feed-in tariff to be paid regulation

the principal

by Enemalta" there shall be added the words "and the period for regulations.

guaranteed payment of the feed-in tariff", and for the words

"authorised by the Authority" there shall be substituted the words

"when an application is submitted to the Authority for an

authorisation to construct such increased capacity".

The Second Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Amends the

Second

amended as follows

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

(a)

in paragraph (d) of item 4 thereof, for the word

"kW" there shall be substituted the word "kWp"; and

(b)

immediately after item 9 thereof, there shall be

added the following new item

"10. In the case of electricity

generated

exclusively by solar photovoltaic installations

(a) approved for the FIT scheme for the year

2013; and

(b) installed on residential or domestic

premises in accordance with regulation 3; and

(c) exported to the distribution system up to an

annual threshold calculated as kWp multiplied by

1600kWh; and

(d) where the installation operator benefits

from a grant of not more than 50% of the initial capital

investment with regard to the solar photovoltaic

installation,

the feed-in tariff to be paid by Enemalta to an installation

operator for electricity generated from solar photovoltaic

installations approved for the FIT scheme for the year

2013 and installed on residential or domestic premises

shall amount to twenty-two cents per kWh for a period of

guaranteed payment of the feed-in tariff of six years for

electricity generated from solar photovoltaic installations

located in Malta and Gozo.".

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