Article 7-1. Obligations of participants in the production, transmission and purchase of electric energy produced by facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, facilities for energy waste disposal The Law on Support for the Use of Renewable Energy Sources

     1. Energy transmission organizations, to the networks of which facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, and facilities for energy waste disposal are connected, are required to submit monthly to a single buyer of electric energy information determined on the basis of readings from commercial electric energy metering devices on the amounts of electric energy supplied by facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, facilities for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources. energy waste disposal in their network.

     2. Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 04/19/2023 No. 223-VII (effective from 07/01/2023).  

     2-1. Qualified consumers shall bear the obligations provided for in subparagraphs 2) and 3) of paragraph 2, as well as paragraphs 6, 6-1, 6-2 and 8 of this Article.

     Qualified consumers are required to conclude annually, in accordance with the standard form, contracts with a single buyer of electric energy for the purchase of electric energy produced by energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources and energy waste disposal.

     During the construction of an object for the use of secondary energy resources, qualified conditional consumers, no later than three hundred and sixty-five days before the commissioning of the object, notify the authorized body and the system operator about the construction of an object for the use of secondary energy resources, indicating the type of secondary energy resources, capacity and location.

      3. A single buyer of electric energy is obliged to:

     1) purchase the planned amount of electricity from energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources and energy waste disposal in accordance with the procedure established by this Law.:

      under purchase and sale agreements between a settlement and financial center and an energy producing organization - at a fixed tariff effective on the date of conclusion of the agreement, subject to the indexation provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 8-1 of this Law.;

      under purchase and sale agreements concluded by him or the settlement and financial center with an energy-producing organization, at auction prices determined based on the results of the auction, taking into account the indexation provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 8-1 of this Law.;

      2) pay for the purchased item in accordance with subparagraph 1) of this paragraph, electric energy in accordance with the procedure provided for by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Electric Power Industry".

     4. A single buyer of electric energy shall conclude contracts for the purchase and sale of electric energy with energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources, which are supported in accordance with this Law, and included by the authorized body in the list of energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources, and purchase electric energy within fifteen years from the date of commencement of comprehensive tests, in which electric energy was supplied to the unified electric power system of the Republic of Kazakhstan, or from the deadline for submitting the acceptance certificate of the facility in accordance with the purchase and sale agreement, whichever comes first.

     4-1. A single buyer of electric energy shall conclude contracts for the purchase and sale of electric energy with energy-producing organizations using energy waste disposal, which are supported in accordance with this Law and the environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and included in the register of auction winners, and purchase electric energy within fifteen years from the date of commencement of comprehensive testing, if which have been supplied with electric energy to the unified electric power system of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

     4-2. Based on the results of auctions, a single buyer of electric energy shall conclude contracts for the purchase and sale of electric energy with energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources, supported in accordance with this Law, and included by the authorized body in the list of energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources, and purchase electric energy within twenty years from the date of commencement of comprehensive tests, under which the supply of electric energy to the unified electric power system of the Republic of Kazakhstan has been carried out, or from the deadline for submitting the acceptance certificate of the facility in accordance with the purchase and sale agreement, whichever comes first.

     4-3. excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/08/2024 No. 121-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).  

     5. A single buyer of electric energy is required to conduct an audit of the annual financial statements in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Auditing Activities" and submit its results to the authorized body.

     6. Energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources, secondary energy resources, and energy waste management, including energy-producing organizations that are part of a qualified consumer, are required to:

     1) provide monthly information to the single buyer of electric energy on the actual daily volumes of generation and supply of electric energy in the grid no later than the fifth day of the month following the month of supply;

     2) annually, by December twentieth, send to the unified buyer of electric energy information on the projected volumes of generation and supply of electric energy in the grid for the coming year, broken down by month;

     3) provide the regional electric grid company and (or) the system operator with daily and monthly (ten calendar days before the beginning of the month) schedules for the supply of electric energy;

     4) ensure compliance with daily schedules for the production of electric energy in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

     6-1. Along with the responsibilities specified in paragraph 6 of this article, energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources, secondary energy resources, and energy waste disposal with an installed capacity of at least one megawatt are required to comply with the operating modes of power plant generating units specified by the system operator in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

     6-2. Hydroelectric power plants equipped with reservoirs are required to carry out intra–day regulation of electric energy generation in accordance with the orders of the system operator when implementing centralized operational dispatch control of the unified electric power system of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the framework of the water regime approved by the authorized body in the field of protection and use of water resources.

     6-3. After the commissioning of a facility for the use of secondary energy resources for ten years, an agreement is concluded annually between an energy-producing organization that uses secondary energy resources, or an energy-producing organization that is part of the same group of persons and located in the same region, and a system operator for the provision of electric power regulation services at a price equal to the weighted average contractual price purchases of these services by the system operator for the calendar year preceding the year of the contract conclusion, in the regulation range of at least twenty percent of the installed electrical capacity of the facility for the use of secondary energy resources to increase or decrease.

     7. Energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources submit an application for concluding a purchase and sale agreement with a single buyer of electric energy for the purchase of electric energy produced by facilities using renewable energy sources within sixty calendar days after their inclusion in the list of energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources.

     The energy producing organization using renewable energy sources submits the following materials and documents to the application for the conclusion of a contract for the purchase and sale of electric energy produced by facilities for the use of renewable energy sources:

     1) copies of title documents;

     2) information about the amount of electric energy supplied.

     7-1. Energy-producing organizations using energy waste disposal shall submit an application for the conclusion of a purchase and sale agreement with a single buyer of electric energy for the purchase of electric energy produced by energy waste disposal facilities within sixty calendar days after their inclusion in the register of auction winners.

     To the application for the conclusion of a contract for the purchase and sale of electric energy produced by energy waste disposal facilities, the energy-producing organization using energy waste disposal submits the following materials and documents:

     1) copies of title documents;

     2) information about the amount of electric energy supplied.

8. All energy-producing organizations using renewable energy sources, secondary energy resources, and energy waste disposal, including energy-producing organizations that are part of a qualified consumer, are required to have an automated commercial accounting system at their facility for the use of renewable energy sources and secondary energy resources, and an energy waste disposal facility. An automated commercial accounting system should be able to transmit data remotely to regional dispatch centers.

     9. The legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on public procurement does not apply to legal relations related to the purchase of electric energy by the settlement and financial center.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 4, 2009 No. 165-IV.

     This Law defines the goals, forms and directions of support for the use of renewable energy sources, as well as regulates the mechanism for supporting energy waste disposal and the use of secondary energy resources.

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