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.