Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations, 2015

L.N. 415 of 2015

REGULATOR FOR ENERGY AND WATER SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 545)

Feed-in Tariffs Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar

Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No. 4) 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. 4) 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".

Item 6 of the First Schedule to the principal regulations

shall be substituted by the following new item

"6.

The solar photovoltaic installation is commissioned

and an application to connect the installation to the distribution

system has been submitted to the distribution system operator

not later than twelve months from the date of approval of the

FIT by the Regulator. In the case that the solar photovoltaic

installation is not commissioned and an application to connect

the installation to the distribution system is not submitted to the

distribution system operator within the aforesaid twelve months,

the eligibility for a FIT shall be subject to the beneficiary of the

FIT applying to the Regulator for an extension, which extension

shall be of twelve months, and which may be granted only once.

The extension of twelve months, irrespective of the date of

application for the extension, shall be reckoned to commence as

from the first day immediately following the end of the

aforesaid twelve month period allowed for the commissioning

and submittal of the application for connection to the

distribution system. The rate of the FIT which would be then

applicable shall be that in force at the time of the submission of

the application for such extension by the beneficiary. However

in the case of solar photovoltaic systems with a capacity equal

or larger than 40kWp which have been approved a feed-in tariff

between 1st of May 2014 and the 30th of November 2014 the

applicable feed-tariff in case of an extension shall be of 15c/

Item 1 of the Second Schedule to the principal regulations, Amends the

Second

shall be amended as follows

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

(a)

Table A shall be substituted by the following new

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

under the FIT scheme

Installation

Capacity

of Feed-in

Tariffs Maximum

premises

and solar

applicable between allocated per annum

photovoltaic

the 3 rd August 2015 for FIT payment to

installation

until the 30 th June PV

approved

2016 in case of (a),

and between the 2nd FIT scheme between

the 3 rd August 2015

of

December

until the 30 th June

and 30 th June 2016 in

2016 in case of (a),

case of (b)

and between the 2nd

of December 2015

and 30 th June 2016

in case of (b)

=>1kWp and

4GWh per annum

(a)

Any installation

5 cents per kWh

<40kWp

(4MWp)

Any installation

(excluding

structure

=>40kWp and

9.6 GWh per annum

15 cents per kWh

(b)

integrated solar

<1MWp

(6MWp)

photovoltaic

installations)

";

(b)

immediately after the words "an extension as

provided in that item." there shall be added the following new

"Units from the cap assigned to the FIT type of

structure integrated solar photovoltaic installations in

Table B that remain unallocated as at the 30th June 2016

may be transferred and added to the cap of units assigned

for FIT type (b) in Table A.".

B

4. In the Third Schedule of the principal regulations, for the

Amends the

ThirdSchedule

words "180,000,000 kWh" there shall be substituted the words

to the principal

"212,000,000 kWh.".

regulations.

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