Policy & Regulation

Wind Power is the second most source of renewable energy in the country, where over 500 MW of wind farms has been installed by 2020. Among the total installed power capacity in the country, Solar contributes over 20% of the total installed capacity, while the installed capacity of wind Power crossed 500 MW, installed capacity from Hydro, was just 16 MW and contributes less than 1 percent among the total installed capacity in the kingdom of Jordan.

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The wheeling of electrical energy generated from renewable energy sources systems for its consumption issued by the Council of Commissioners of the Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission, to manage the integration into the grid with increasing shares of renewables, the government decided in early-2019 to put a hold on net metering and net wheeling projects above 1 MW. During 2020, no changes occurred but several exemptions were granted for C&I projects due to an economic need to decrease their operational costs. Regulating Procedures and Means of Conserving Energy and improving its efficiency where the general policy of energy conservation and improvement of its efficiency has been introduced. It also asks to encourage investment in the field of conserving energy and improving the efficiency of its use, monitoring energy audit procedures and implementation of systems and activities related to conservation of energy and improving the efficiency of its use, submit to the Cabinet about dates of summer and winter daylight saving time, spread national awareness in the field of conservation of energy and improvement of its efficiency, also establish a database related to conservation of energy and improvement of its efficiency. Multi-purpose electricity meters shall be endorsed for measuring energy consumption and time of the same for purposes of introducing day and night tariffs as well as peak tariffs, according to the directions to be issued by the Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) to this end. Retail suppliers licensed by (ERC) shall be obliged to replace single-purpose electricity meters with multiple-purpose electricity meters within a period not exceeding seven (7) years from the date of this Act's effectiveness. Instructions for the sale of electric power generated from renewable energy sources, A user who has a one-phase subscription may install and use renewable energy sources systems that cannot exceed his monthly consumption rate for the previous year from the date of submitting the request for linkage to renewable energy sources. The user of the new one-phase subscription may install and use renewable energy sources systems and cannot exceed the electric load that the distributor estimates. This subscriber shall provide written evidence to the distribution company and prove that the facility is for the actual consumption of electrical energy. A user who has a three-phase low voltage subscription may install and use renewable energy sources systems that cannot exceed the actual consumption rate of the previous year. The user of the new three-phase subscription may install and use renewable energy sources systems that cannot exceed the electric load that the distributor estimates, provided that the subscriber submits written evidence to the distribution company and proves that the facility is for its actual consumption of electrical energy.