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National Contact Point: eclareon - Moïra Jimeno, Michał Gulczyński
(mj(at)eclareon.com)
Description
It is required to have a contractual relation with the site (procurement, renting, land rights, roofs)
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For the grid connection permit for new systems, the access application process and the connection application may be carried out simultaneously, in both cases the prior concession of access being a necessary and essential requirement for the connection authorization. The New Supply Department is responsible for responding to these applications in the offices of the grid operator or by letter; the following documents are currently requested:
- Letter of application for grid Connection Point indicating the application no. already obtained.
- System summary report; site plan, drawings, characteristics of the PV modules and inverters, etc.
- Proposed grid connection point.
| Step Difficulty: | Moderate |
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| Authority Name: | Utility |
| Specialists: | Technical Specialists |
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| Legal Reference: | RD 1955/2000 |
| Year: | 2000 |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 8 |
Description
PV installations not exceeding 10 kW and intending to connect to a point of the distribution network at low voltage, directly or through installation of an internal net, in which there is a contracted capacity supply equal to or higher than the installation, can be connected at the same point of the supply through abbreviated procedure. The abbreviated documentation is given by the Utility as it´s indicated in the RD 1699/2011.
| Step Difficulty: | Moderate |
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| Authority Name: | Utility |
| Specialists: | Technical Specialists |
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| Legal Reference: | RD 1699/2011 |
| Year: | 2011 |
Description
According to RD 900/2015, Installations Type 1 de up to 10 kW of installed capacity, are exempted from the payment of the connection and access studies
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | Utility |
| Specialists: | Technical Specialists |
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| Legal Reference: | RD 900/2015 |
| Year: | 2015 |
Description
Urban or works licence from the corresponding Municipality:
1. In compliance with the Law on Territorial Spatial Planning and Urban Activities of the Autonomous Community, the execution of the Project is subject to the prior obtaining of the urban or works licence from the corresponding Municipality. Urban or works licence for Type I.1 (small rooftop PV installations) facilities are not required to be registered in the Pre-allocation Registry.
Use or Activity Licence: 1. In compliance with the respective Law on Territorial Spatial Planning and Urban Activities, PV installations may be subject to the obtaining of the use and activity as well as the first building's usage licences from the Municipality.
2. Licence for first usage shall be the licence of first occupation, which verifies the conditioning taxes in the works licence.
3. In addition, and taking into account the provisions contained in the corresponding municipal codes, it shall be necessary to acquire an activity licence (article 22 of the Local Corporation Services Regulation), and when required, to verify the conditions that may be imposed on that activity licence, namely an opening licence.
| Step Difficulty: | Moderate |
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| Authority Name: | Municipality |
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| Legal Reference: | Law on Territorial Spatial Planning and Urban Activities of the Autonomous Community. |
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| Legal Reference: | Regional Urban Laws. Can Be different in every municipality |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 5 |
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| Legal Reference: | Regional Urban Laws. Can Be different in every municipality |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 5 |
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| Legal Reference: | Regional Urban Laws. Can Be different in every municipality |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 6 |
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Description
PV Installations with a capacity below or equal to 10 kW do not have to present this guarantee, according to article 1 RD 1699/2011.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | The Department of Tax and Public Administration of the Autonomous Community |
| Specialists: | Banks and financial specialists |
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| Legal Reference: | RD1699/2011 |
| Year: | 2011 |
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Description
Self-consumtion installations type 1 should be registered in the Self-consumtion Registry.
There are two sections under the Self-consumtion Registry: 1) selfconsumers type 1 with capacity less or equal than 10 kW and 2) selfconsumers type 1 with capacity more than 10 kW and selfconsumers type 2. Isolated rooftop PVs do not require registration.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism |
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| Legal Reference: | RD 900/2015 |
| Year: | 2015 |
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Description
According to the Electricity Low Tension Regulation, PV installations with a capacity below or equal to 10 kW do not need a project approval; only a simple technical memory is sufficient. The rest of the installations are required to obtain this approval.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | General Industry Direction |
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| Legal Reference: | Electricity Low Tension Regulation |
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Description
The funding called "JESSICA-F.I.D.A.E." is co-financed by IDAE (Institute for Diversification and Saving of Energy) and FEDER (European Funding for Regional Development) and until June 2016 offered support to investment in small PV systems. Moreover, the autonomous governments (Autonomous Communities) offer direct support even including subsidies from European Bodies. These are usually restricted to small PV isolated systems.
| Step Difficulty: | High |
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| Authority Name: | Autonomous Communities, IDAE (Institute for Diversification and Saving of Energy) |
| Specialists: | Economists, financial experts |
| Legal Level: | National & Regional |
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Barriers
| Legal Level: | National & Regional |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 8 |
Description
It is the financing requested to the private credit agencies, with guarantees from the current investors.
| Step Difficulty: | High |
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| Authority Name: | Banks and Funds |
| Specialists: | Economists, financial experts |
| Legal Level: | National & Regional |
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| Legal Level: | National & Regional |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 8 |
Description
Once all the legal and administrative conditions and permits have been complied with, the owner of the PV installation can proceed with the installation of his system. This activity shall be carried out by an authorised professional installer.
| Step Difficulty: | Moderate |
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| Authority Name: | Municipality and Autonomous Community |
| Specialists: | Technical specialists |
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Description
Upon signature of the agreement with the distribution company, the owner of the installation has one month in order to request the utility to sign the technical network connection contract (according to annex III of Royal Decree 1699/2011). For that the owner has to present the Certificate with the main characteristics of the installation and the Certificate with the accomplishment of the tests emmitted by the authorized installer and the Industry Territorial Services. The distribution company will sign the contract within a maximum period of one month, provided that the installation complies with the technical requirements.If the self-consumption installation is a type 2 (> 100 kW), its owner should subscribe an access contrat of its auxiliar services
| Step Difficulty: | Moderate |
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| Authority Name: | Electricity Distribution companies |
| Specialists: | Technical specialists |
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| Legal Reference: | RD 1699/2011 |
| Year: | 2011 |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 5 |
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Description
Once the contract has been signed, and the corresponding tests carried out by the distribution company owner of the connection point, the latter shall authorise the connection of the plant. The required documents are:
1. Letter of application of connection to the grid,
2. Access contract
If problems are identified, there is 1 month to solve them. In case there are no problems, the distribution company has 1 month to carry out the connection. The connection should be carried out by an authorised installer.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | Electricity company |
| Specialists: | Technical specialists |
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| Legal Reference: | RD 1699/2011 |
| Year: | 2011 |
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| Severity Level [1-10]: | 5 |
Description
The self-consumption installations type 1 should be only registered in the Self-consumtion Registry, but not under the Production Registry (RAIPRE).The link (under Industry Ministry) for the Self-consumtion registration is: https://sedeaplicaciones.minetur.gob.es/rea/(S(5uy5an5jf1omqjw0fe4zh2fi))/Vista/RegistroPublico.aspx
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism |
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| Legal Reference: | RD 900/2015 |
| Year: | 2015 |
Description
In case of a change of ownership of the system, it is required to notified it to the General Direction of Industry of the respective autonomous community's delegation.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | General Direction of Energy and Mines Policy |
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| Legal Level: | National & Regional |
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Description
The charges related to system costs will correspond to the supply point.
To determine the charges related to system costs it will be considered the following:
a) The application of fixed charges will be made based on the capacity.
b) The application of variable charges will be made on the corresponding energy resulting from
the sum of the hourly demand and hourly self-consumption. PV plants under 10 kW and systems not on the Spanish mainland will be spared this variable generation charge.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. |
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| Legal Reference: | Royal Decree 900/2015 |
| Year: | 2015 |
Description
This is a charge for the suppor service that the whole electricity system does to enable the mode of energy self-consumption.
This charge is calculated estimating in each period the price of other services of the electricty system that correspond to the peninsular demand.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. |
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| Legal Reference: | Royal Decree 900/2015 |
| Year: | 2015 |
Description
The application should be adressed to the General Direction of Energy and Mining Policy through the Web Site of the Industry Ministry. It should be presented a formal declarstion (Art. 7bis de la Ley 30/92) and the self-consumption filled in form (annex II RD 900/2015). There is one month from the formalizaiton of the access contract.
| Step Difficulty: | Low |
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| Authority Name: | Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. |
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| Legal Reference: | Royal Decree 900/2015 |
| Year: | 2015 |
