The Malta Developers Association has announced that it 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 on which it has been working for over a year. It is working closely with the authorities, as well as its members, so that property development in the country will become more professional and efficient. There was a period in the past 20 years when everyone thought that anyone who had any money to invest could become a property developer and few people were concerned about whether they were breaking the law, as long as they were able to obtain electricity from somewhere. At the same time, it was a disgrace that people in this situation had to resort to breaking the law in order to obtain an electricity supply.

This is why the MDA has, for some time, been requesting that developers be given this facility, as 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.

After in-depth discussions on this issue, there has been agreement on how this supply can be provided in a way that benefitted the developer without in any way breaking the regulations, ie even when there is no tower crane that would require a three-phase supply.

The supply will be for a fixed period of six months, provided that the work is 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 a guarantee that the electricity supply will be used only for the purpose for which it has been granted and that there will be no abuse.

The MDA has expressed its appreciation to Enemalta Corporation, and in particular to the officials who worked with it so that its request would be granted.