Developers reach agreement with Enemalta on temporary meters

The Malta Developers Association has reached an agreement with Enemalta for the Corporation to provide a temporary electricity service at construction sites.

This was one of the MDA's initiatives it had been working on for over a year, leading to an agreement for Enemalta to launch a temporary electricity service at construction sites.

MDA president Micahel Falzon said contractors were finding it difficult to obtain an electricity supply and often they had to 'borrow' electricity from domestic users in the vicinity, a practice that was illegal.

 "In the past 20 years there was a time when everyone thought that whoever had any money to invest could become a developer and few were bothered about whether they were breaking the law so long as they were able to obtain electricity from somewhere. At the same time it was a disgrace that those who were in this situation had to resort to breaking the regulations to obtain an electricity supply," MDA president Michael Falzon said.

The new agreement allows developers to avoid breaking the regulations in any circumstance, even when there is no tower crane that would require three-phase supply.

The supply will be for a fixed period of six months, so long as the works are covered by the relative permits, and will no longer be valid if the developer does not apply for a further six-month extension. In this way there is an assurance that the electricity supply will be used only for the purpose that it is granted and that there will be no abuse.