Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2021

L.N. 61 of 2021

REGULATOR FOR ENERGY AND WATER SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 545)

Feed-in Tariffs Scheme (Electricity Generated from Solar

Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 37 of the

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

Enterprise and Sustainable Development, after consultation with the

Regulator for Energy and Water Services, with the concurrence of the

Minister for Finance and Employment, 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, 2021 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".

Immediately after regulation 4B of the principal regulations

there shall be added the following new regulation

It-Tieni Skeda li tinsab mar-regolamenti prinċipali għandha

tiġi emendata kif ġej

(a) it-Tabella A tagħha għandha tiġi sostitwita bit-tabella

ġdida li ġejja

Tabella A: Limiti u Tariffi Feed-in applikabbli għall-Istallazzjonijiet Fotovoltajċi

tax-Xemx approvati taħt l-iskema FIT

Skema FIT

Kapaċità tal-

Tariffi Feed-in

Unitajiet massimi

istallazzjoni

applikabbli bejn l-1

allokati kull sena

fotovoltajka tax-

ta’ Jannar 2021 u l- għal ħlas ta’ FIT lil

xemx installata

31 ta’ Diċembru

sistemi fotovoltajċi

f’kull tip ta’ sit

approvati taħt din l-

iskema FIT bejn l-1

ta’ Jannar 2021 u l-

31 ta’ Diċembru

=>1kWp u

15 ċenteżmu għal

Any installation operator who was regulated by

the repealed Feed-In Tariffs (Electricity Generated From

Solar Photovoltaic Installations) Regulations, 2010

(originally promulgated by Legal Notice 422 of 2010), or

as from the 1st July 2013, is being paid the proxy for the

market price, and notwithstanding any other provision of

these regulations, in the case of electricity generated

exclusively by solar photovoltaic installations

(a) approved on a FIT scheme before the 1st

January 2020; and

(b) installed on residential or domestic

premises in accordance with regulation 3; and

(c) exported to the distribution system up to

an annual threshold calculated as kWp multiplied by

1600h,

the installation operator shall be paid a feed-in tariff which

amounts to 10.5 cents per kWh for a period of guaranteed

payment of the feed-in tariff of twenty (20) years less the

duration for which a FIT has already been paid to the

installation operator.".

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

Second

amended as follows

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

(a) Table A thereof 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

Capacity of solar

Feed-in Tariffs

Maximum units

photovoltaic

applicable between allocated per annum

installation installed the 1st January 2021 for FIT payment to

in any location

and the 31st

PV systems

December 2021

approved under this

FIT scheme between

the 1st January 2021

and the 31st

December 2021

=>1kWp and

15 cents per kWh

8 GWh per

<40kWp

annum (8MWp)

"; and

(b) item 4 thereof shall be substituted by the following

new item

"4. In the case of electricity generated exclusively

by solar photovoltaic installations -

(a) approved for the FIT scheme from the 1st

January 2021 until the 31st December 2021; and

(b) installed on residential or domestic

premises 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) where the installation operator benefits

from a grant of not more than fifty per cent (50%) of

the initial capital investment with regard to the solar

photovoltaic installation, 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 amount to 10.5

cents per kWh for a period of guaranteed payment of

the feed-in tariff of twenty (20) years for electricity

generated from solar photovoltaic installations

located in Malta and Gozo.".

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