Abbreviated form of legal source
● Law on the Regulation of Electricity Market
Description of the process
Operation license is obligatory for all RES projects. Every legal or natural person that wants to generate electricity should apply for it from the Cyprus Regulatory Energy Committee (CERA) (art. 31 par. 1 Law on the Regulation of Electricity Market). However, RES projects below 5 MW and autonomous electricity producers that produce electricity for own consumption with plants with capacity below 1 MW can apply to CERA for an exemption from operation license (art. 35 par. 2 Law on the Regulation of Electricity Market).
The application for the operation license is submitted after the administrative authorization procedure.
Similarly, to the installation license, a standard application form is used for both the operation license and the exemption from the license (see section 2.1.2.). The applications necessitate specific information on the project. The CERA Committee approves or rejects the application and the decision is made available on CERA’s website (art. 38 par. 3 Law on Regulation of Electricity Market).
Competent authority
● CERA