Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No.3) Regulations, 2014

L.N. 416 of 2014

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Feed-in Tariffs Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar

Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No.3) 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

Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations)

(Amendment No.3) Regulations, 2014, and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Feed-in Tariffs Scheme

(Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations)

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into force

on 1st May, 2014.

Immediately after regulation 4 of the principal regulations,

there shall be added the following new regulation

" Electricity

In the case of electricity generated

generated

exclusively

by

roof-mounted

solar

exclusively by

photovoltaic installations constructed mainly

solar

photovoltaic

for own consumption and where the

installations

constructed

installation operator does not benefit from any

mainly for own

feed-in tariff under these regulations, the rate

consumption.

to be paid for any surplus electricity generated

on site but not consumed and supplied to the

distribution system operator shall be the

marginal cost of electricity under the Fourth

Schedule

Provided that

(a)

the installation operator

may not avail himself of the benefits

under regulation 12(1)(e) and (f); and

(b)

in the case of an extension

to the capacity of a roof-mounted solar

photovoltaic installation installed in

terms of regulation 4A, the rate paid for

the surplus electricity generated on site

but not consumed and supplied to the

distribution system operator shall be the

marginal cost under the Fourth

Schedule; and

(c)

roof-mounted

solar

photovoltaic installations installed in

terms of this regulation shall not be

installed as an extension to an existing

solar photovoltaic installation already

benefitting from a feed-in tariff under

these regulations.".

3. In paragraph (f) of sub-regulation 1 of regulation 12 of the Amends

principal regulations, the words "in case of solar photovoltaic regulation

12 of

the principal

installations benefitting from feed-in tariffs in items 1 to 4 of the regulations.

Second Schedule" shall be deleted

4. The Second Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Amends the

Second

amended as follows

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

(a) in item 1 thereof, Table A shall be

substituted by the following new Table

"

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

under the FIT scheme

Installa-

Capacity of

Feed-in

Maximum

Feed-in Tariffs

Maximum

tion

solar

Tariffs

units allocated

applicable

units allocated

location

photovoltaic

applicable

per annum for between the 1 st per annum for

installation

between the

FIT payment

FIT payment

December 2014

to PV systems

to

PV systems

1 st of

th

until the 30

approved

approved

November

April 2015

under this FIT

under this FIT

2014 until

scheme

scheme

the 30 th

between

the

st

between

the

April 2015

1 st December

November

2014 until the

2014 and the

30 th April 2015

30 th April

6,400,000 kWh

5 cents

Roof

<40kWp

per annum

Not applicable

Not applicable

per kWh

Mounted

(4MWp)

=>40kWp

9,600,000kWh

Not

15 cents per

Roof

and

Not applicable

per annum

applicable

kWh

Mounted

<1MWp

(6MWp)

In line with the first-come-first served principle, the Authority reserves the right

to stop accepting applications for a feed-in tariff if, in its opinion, it has received

sufficient applications which reach the total maximum units allocated for FIT

payment to PV systems in terms of Table A and following publication of a notice

to that effect in the web-site of the Authority.

The receipt of any application by the Authority which may not be allocated a feed-

in tariff should not be construed as an acceptance or approval thereof and does not

in any manner whatsoever give rise to any obligation on the part of the Authority

to allocate a feed in tariff to the applicant.

Applications received under previous schemes are not eligible under the FIT

scheme in Table A. Such applications have to be re-submitted to the Authority for

approval, if applicable.".

(b)

in paragraph (a) of item 4 thereof, for the words

"30th September 2014" there shall be substituted the words

"30th April 2015";

(c)

in paragraph (a) of item 5 thereof, for the words

"30th September 2014" there shall be substituted the words

"30th April 2015"; and

(d)

in paragraph (a) of item 6 thereof, for the words

"30th September 2014" there shall be substituted the words

"30th April 2015".

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