Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No.2) Regulations, 2014

L.N. 155 of 2014

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Feed-in Tariffs Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar

Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No.2) Regulations, 2014

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

Resources Authority Act, the Minister for Energy and Health, after

consultation with the Malta Resources Authority, has made the

following regulations:-

(1)

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

Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations) commencement.

(Amendment No.2) Regulations, 2014, and these regulations shall be

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

(Electricity 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 January 2014.

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, the definition Amends

regulation 2 of

"Enemalta" shall be substituted by the following new definition

the principal

regulations.

" "Enemalta" or "Corporation" means the

Enemalta Corporation as established by the

Enemalta Act, and any reference made to the

Corporation in these regulations shall be read

and construed as being a reference to

Enemalta

Provided that any reference to Enemalta

shall also be construed as being a reference to

any subsidiary or associate company of

Enemalta, or to any other entity, however so

described, duly authorised in writing by

Enemalta to perform any of the functions that

Enemalta may undertake in accordance under

the Enemalta Act and any other law;".

In item 6 to the First Schedule to the principal regulations Amends the

immediately after the word "commissioned" there shall be added the First

to the principal

words "and an application to connect the installation to the regulations.

distribution system has been submitted to Enemalta".

The Second Schedule to the principal regulations, shall be

amended as follows

(a)

items 1 to 4 thereof shall be substituted by the

following new item

"1. In the case of electricity generated

exclusively from solar photovoltaic installations -

(a) when an application for the FIT

scheme, meeting all the requirements, was

submitted and approved by the Authority for the

periods of time referred to in Table A; and

(b) installed on any type of premises 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) for a period of guaranteed payment of

feed-in tariff of twenty years;

(e)

where an application to benefit the

solar photovoltaic installation with a grant has not

been made or the solar photovoltaic installation has

not benefited from a grant on the initial capital

investment, the feed-in tariff to be paid by

Enemalta to an installation operator for electricity

generated from solar photovoltaic installations and

supplied to Enemalta shall be in accordance with

the amounts per kWh, solar photovoltaic

installation’s individual capacity limits and

maximum units allocated per annum for payment

of each feed-in tariff as established in Table A as

follows

Table A: Caps and Feed-in Tariffs applicable for solar photovoltaic installations approved

under the FIT scheme

Capacity of

Feed-in

Maximum

Feed-in Tariffs

Maximum

solar

Tariffs

units allocated

applicable

units allocated

photovoltaic

applicable

per annum for between the 1 st per annum for

installation

between the

FIT payment

FIT payment

of November

to PV systems

to PV systems

st

1 of May

2014 and the

approved

approved

2014 and the

th

30 April 2015

under

this

FIT

under

st

31 of

scheme

October

between the

between the 1 st

of May 2014

November

st

and the 31 of

2014 and the

October 2014

30 th April

6,400,000 kWh

5 cents per

6,400,000 kWh

5 cents

per annum

kWh

per annum

<40kWp

per kWh

(4MWp)

6,400,000kWh

15 cents per

6,400,000kWh

per annum

kWh

per annum

16.0 cents

=>40kWp

per kWh

(4MWp)

The maximum units allocated in Table A for each

FIT scheme do not include units from solar photovoltaic

installations which pursuant to item 6 of the First Schedule

become non-eligible for feed-in tariffs approved under

previous FIT Schemes. Such units instead shall be

transferred and added from the previous allocation of units

to the maximum amount of units allocated to the FIT

schemes under Table A. This is subject to the submission

of a new application by the applicant to benefit from a

feed-in tariff under Table A for the same amount of units as

originally approved and its subsequent approval."; and

(b)

items 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 thereof shall be renumbered

as items 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 respectively.

5. The Third Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Substitutes the

Third Schedule

substituted by the following new schedule

to the principal

regulations.

"THIRD SCHEDULE

(Regulation 7)

Total maximum electricity that may be generated and sold to

Enemalta from solar photovoltaic installations approved to benefit

from the FIT scheme for the years 2010 to 2014 shall amount to

148,000,000 kWh.".

6. In the Fourth Schedule to the principal regulations, for the

words "year 2013" there shall be substituted the words "year 2014".

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