Amendment to article 11 (pre-registration of community energy installations)11
1
Article 11 is amended as follows.
2
At the beginning of paragraph (2), insert “Subject to paragraph (2A),”.
3
After paragraph (2), insert—
2A
The Authority must not pre-register a community energy installation in respect of which an MCS certificate has not been issued where, at the time that the application for pre-registration is received by the Authority, the application limit for installations of that particular description for the tariff period beginning on 1st January 2019—
a
has been exceeded; or
b
would be exceeded if an MCS certificate were to be issued for the installation during the tariff period beginning on 1st January 2019.
4
In paragraph (3), after “the application”, insert “is received by the Authority on or before 31st March 2019, and”.
5
In paragraph (5)—
a
in sub-paragraph (d), after “on or after 8th February 2016”, insert “, and its MCS certificate is issued on or before 31st March 2019”;
b
at the end of sub-paragraph (d)(ii), insert “; and”;
c
after sub-paragraph (d)(ii), insert—
e
where the installation’s MCS certificate is issued on or after 1st April 2019—
i
the eligibility date is the date on which the application for FIT payments is received by a FIT licensee; and
ii
the tariff date is 1st January 2019.