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Malta Resources Authority Act (Cap. 423) Feed-In Tariffs (Electricity Generated From Solar Photovoltaic Installations) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 (L.N. 70 Of 2011 )

VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA

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IN exercise of the powers conferred by sub-article (1) of article 28 of the Malta Resources Authority Act, the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs, after consultation with the Malta Resources Authority has made the following regulations:

“(8) Subject to the satisfaction of the eligibility criteria established in the First Schedule to these regulations, in the case where an installation operator increases the generation c a p a c i t y o f a s o l a r p h o t o v o l t a i c i n s t a l l a t i o n w h i c h i s connected to the distribution system, the feed-in tariff to be paid by Enemalta shall be that which is applicable during the year when such increased capacity is notified to or authorised by the Authority, and which feed-in tariff shall be payable in respect of the whole solar photovoltaic installation as increased in capacity.

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L.N. 422 of 2010

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Amends regulation

2 of the principal regulations.

Amends regulation

3 of the principal regulations.

Amends regulation

4 of the principal regulations.

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(9) Where the installation operator has benefited from a grant on any part of the solar photovoltaic installation, the whole solar photovoltaic installation shall be deemed as benefitting from the grant for the purpose of determining the feed-in tariff applicable for the whole solar photovoltaic installation.
( 1 0 ) T h e e l e c t r i c i t y g e n e r a t e d f r o m d i f f e r e n t installations within the same premises shall be separately metered when those installations generate such electricity from different renewable energy sources.
(11) For the purposes of these regulations, the owner of the installations generating electricity from renewable energy sources in the same premises may opt either to export all the electricity generated at the applicable feed in tariff as the case may be for each type of renewable energy source as separately metered, or to generate electricity primarily for own use and to export the surplus at the lowest of the applicable feed-in tariffs payable for the electricity generated and exported to the distribution system from renewable energy sources.”.

Amends regulation

5 of the principal regulations.

Amends regulation

6 of the principal regulations.

(a) immediately after the word “replaces” there shall be inserted the words “or increases the capacity”;
(b) the words “the feed-in tariff.” shall be substituted by the words “the feed-in tariff:” and immediately after there shall be added the following proviso:
“Provided that the same terms and conditions applicable for that period of guaranteed payment of the feed-in tariff shall subsist.”.

“Provided further that in the case where the installation operator benefits or has benefited from a grant of more than
50% of the initial capital investment with regard to the solar

photovoltaic installation, the feed-in tariff that shall be paid by Enemalta shall decrease by €0.002 per kWh for every
1% exceeding the aforementioned 50% of the initial capital investment received as part of the grant:
Provided also that the feed in tariff shall not be less than the marginal cost per unit incurred by Enemalta as established in the Fourth Schedule to these regulations.”.

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Amends the First Schedule to the principal regulations.

Amends the Second Schedule to the principal regulations.

Substitutes the Third Schedule to the principal regulations.

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Regulation 7

Total maximum electricity generated by solar photovoltaic installations and exported to the distribution system eligible to benefit from the feed- in tariff

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10. In the Fourth Schedule to the principal regulations, for the words “year

Amends the Fourth

Schedule to the

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2011”.