ROOFTOP PHOTOVOLTAICS - THE STOCK OF KILOWATT HOURS REMAINS, BUT FOR A FEW - Filenews 23/4
The Plenary Session of the Parliament will also be called today to take a position on the referral by the President of the Republic of the law that had been unanimously passed by the Parliament - following a law proposal by DIKO MP Michalis Damianos - to establish a methodology for compensating the owners of residential photovoltaics whose surplus electricity production has been erased in recent weeks.
President Christodoulides ruled, following the opinion of the Attorney General, as unconstitutional some provisions of the proposed law, especially because it imposes an obligation to pay significant amounts as compensation from the state treasury to households.
The information of Liberal states that despite the postponement requested by the Government last week for the discussion of the referral, the official position of the executive remains that the Giakoumis proposal that was passed into law cannot be valid, due to constitutional impediments.
The Energy Committee will convene on the issue in the morning, in the presence of Minister Michalis Damianos. Despite what was disseminated or published yesterday, the Government, according to the information of Fileleftheros, will insist on the referral and annulment of the law.
However, our information states that after consultations between the Ministry of Energy and the EAC, the Energy Service and the Consumer Protection Service, it has been decided that households that installed rooftop photovoltaics with the 2021 plan should be excluded from the decision to write off electricity surpluses from owners of household consumers who did not use them in the previous period.
That plan provided, as has been established in recent days, that kilowatt-hour reserves (i.e. the energy channelled from photovoltaics to the EAC network) will not be deleted and home producers will be compensated - obviously by the EAC - for these surpluses, at the end of their contracts, i.e. after 15 years from the installation of photovoltaics.
The Minister of Energy will inform the Energy Committee today and accordingly some decisions will be officially announced.
From the information we received, it is concluded that about 10,000 residential owners of photovoltaics, who have a production surplus, which will not be deleted, will benefit from the new data that were examined. For household consumers who created a surplus on the basis of other plans, the write-off of the stock will apply, according to the contract they signed.
