Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2015

L.N. 365 of 2015

REGULATOR FOR ENERGY AND WATER SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 545)

Feed-in Tariffs Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar

Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2015

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 37(1) of the

Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act, the Minister for Energy

and Health, after consultation with the Regulator for Energy and

Water Services, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Feed-in Tariffs Scheme

(Electricity Generated from Solar Photovoltaic Installations)

(Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2015, 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".

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, immediately

after the definition "start of works" there shall be added the following

new definition

" "structure integrated solar photovoltaic installation"

means a solar photovoltaic installation whereby the

photovoltaic panels form part of the fabric of a structure which

is not primarily intended for supporting PV panels but which

can be so adapted. These include the following

(a) photovoltaic installations integrated in

building facades only when the panels replace glass, stone,

concrete or other building components in the façade;

(b) bus shelters when the panels form part of the

bus shelter envelope substituting other material necessary

for the structure to function as a bus shelter;

(c)

canopies when the panels substitute other

materials;

(d) greenhouses when the PV panels substitute

other material;".

In the Second Schedule to the principal regulations, Amends the

immediately after item 4 there shall be added the following new item: Second

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

"5.

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 Regulator for the periods of time referred to in Table

B; and

(b) with the type of installation as in Table B, in

Malta and Gozo and in accordance with regulation 3; and

(c) exported to the distribution system up to an

annual threshold calculated as kWp multiplied by 1600h;

and

(d) for a period of guaranteed payment of feed-in

tariff of twenty (20) 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 the distribution system operator

to an installation operator for electricity generated from solar

photovoltaic installations and supplied to the distribution

system operator shall be in accordance with the amount per

kWh, solar photovoltaic installation’s individual capacity limits

and maximum units allocated per annum for payment of the

feed-in tariff as established in Table B as follows

Table B: Caps and Feed in Tariffs applicable for solar photovoltaic

installations approved under the FIT scheme

Type of

Capacity of solar

Feed-in Tariff

Maximum units

Installation

photovoltaic

applicable

allocated per annum

installation

between the 2nd for FIT payment to

November 2015

PV systems

until the 30th June approved under this

FIT scheme

between the 2nd

November 2015

and the 30th June

Structure

=>40kWp and

15 cents per kWh

4 GWh per

integrated solar

<1MWp

annum(4MWp)

photovoltaic

installations

€0.27