Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

L.N. 271 of 2013

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Feed-in Tariffs Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar

Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment) 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:-

(1)

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

Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2013, and these regulations shall be read

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

Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations) Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have entered into

force on the 1st July 2013.

Immediately after item 7 of the Second Schedule to the Amends the

Second

principal regulations there shall be added the following new items

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

"8.

In the case of electricity generated exclusively by

solar photovoltaic installations -

(a) when an application for the FIT scheme,

meeting all the requirements, was submitted and approved

by MRA between the 1st July 2013 and the 31st December

2013; and

(b) installed on non-residential premises or

institutional households in Malta and Gozo 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 has been

awarded a grant before the 1st July 2013 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 and supplied to Enemalta and installed on non-

residential or institutional households premises shall amount to

15 cents per kWh for a period of guaranteed payment of the

feed-in tariff of 7 years.

In the case of electricity generated exclusively by

solar photovoltaic installations -

(a) when an application for the FIT scheme,

meeting all the requirements, was submitted and approved

by MRA between the 1st July 2013 and the 31st December

2013; and

(b) installed on non-residential premises or

institutional households in Malta and Gozo 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 has benefitted

from a grant after the 30th June 2013 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 and supplied to Enemalta and installed on non-

residential or institutional households premises shall amount to

11 cents per kWh for a period of guaranteed payment of the

feed-in tariff of 7 years.".

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