The energy ministry, seeking to encourage further RES investment, plans to soon submit to Parliament a comprehensive package of measures designed to free electrical grid space and make available capacity for new RES units.

These interventions will enable power grid operator IPTO to increase the number of new connection terms granted to RES investors.

The ministry’s package of measures, which could be submitted to Parliament before January is out, are expected to include initiatives such as greater grid-injection restrictions as well as terms promoting battery installations at RES facilities without batteries.

The measures will be implemented at a latter stage, as part of a second wave of efforts, by a project management group established by the ministry. This group has been tasked with finding solutions for greater RES penetration and optimal management of the grid’s limited capacity.

The group will need to address and fine-tune details that determine the extent of grid-injection restrictions; specify which RES units will be subjected to these new restrictions; and also inform which RES units may install batteries and under what terms.

The group’s effort will be aligned with the National Energy and Climate Plan’s goals set for 2030.