Abbreviated form of legal source
- RD 413/2014
- RD 1955/2000
Description of the process
Article 37 of RD 413/2014 prescribes that all new RE installations must be registered under the Administrative Register of Electricity Production Facilities. The registration is a pre requisite to operate in the electricity market (RD 1955/2000).
The RE installations shall follow a two-step procedure. First, once the project obtained all the administrative authorisations, it shall be pre-registered. Secondly, after the project developer obtained the commissioning certificate (exploitation license) the installation shall be definitively registered in the Register. However, installations equal to or lower than 1 MW of installed capacity shall only be registered in one step (article 169, RD 1955/2000). The authority has a maximum period of one month to process the request.
Rooftop PV installations shall not be registered in the Administrative Register of Electricity Production Facilities. However, they shall be registered ex officio in the Administrative Register of Self-consumption of Electricity.
Competent authority
- MITECO
- Directorate General for Energy Policy and Mines
- Autonomous Communities