Internal Project Management Guidelines - PV Policy Group

PV Policy Group – WP2 – Questionnaire on national policy framework for PV
produced by plants included in the Independent Power System, including PV and other
renewables
Decree-Law 68/2002 of March 25 - Regulates the power production activity for systems below 150
kW (including grid-connected PV systems) used for self-consumption (minimum 50% of production)
and delivery of surplus to the grid or to a third party at low voltage.
2.2. Subsidy schemes for PV investments
Please list all relevant legislation (e.g. laws, decrees) and/or programmes regulating the acquisition
of investment subsidies (e.g. grants, soft loans, other financing schemes) for PV investors. Key
instruments are then analysed in detail in Part E + F of the questionnaire.
Decree-Law 70-B/2000 of May 5 – Approves the legal framework for the creation of
measures aiming at the strategic development of the different economic activity sectors,
trough direct and indirect support to companies and other economic agents for the time period
of 2000 to 2006.
Resolution of the Council of Ministers n. 101/2003 of July 10 – Creates the PRIME
Programme (Incentives Programme for the Modernisation of Economic Activities) whose
objective is to promote the productivity and competitiveness of the Portuguese economy
through the selective support of company projects and strategies aiming to improve their
sustainable and competitive development.
Portaria 394/2004 of April 19 – Approves and regulates the MAPE (Support Measure for the
Maximisation of Energy Potential and for Streamline Consumption) in the framework of the
PRIME Programme, which has the purpose of providing targeted support to power and heat
production based on new and renewable energies, as well as to projects for the rational use of
energy and conversion to natural gas.
Dispatch n. 27461/2004 (2nd series) of December 17 – Publishes the maximum limits for the
eligible investment for the different RES conversion technologies under the MAPE, setting
3500 EUR/kW for PV power plants.
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