The installation adaptation certificates or CAI's will expire.

SEPTEMBER 2022 UPDATE

NEW EXTENSION ESTABLISHED TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE ISSUING CAI`S

Dear friends, there has been some good news in the form of an extended deadline for this provision:

In principle it was scheduled to be until September 2022, according to the provisions of Decree Law 15/2020, of September 10, of the Presidency of the Government, on urgent measures to promote the primary, energy, tourism and territorial sectors of the Canary Islands.

Nevertheless, with the publication of "LAW 5/2021, of December 21, on urgent measures to promote the primary, energy, tourism and territorial sectors of the Canary Islands.", approved in the BOC No. 265. Monday, December 27, 2021, In its fourth additional provision, it indicates that the administrative regularization process has a term of validity of “2 years” from the entry into force of said law.

Therefore, the procedure must remain in force until December 2023.

This type of adaptation certificates will not be allowed as of December 2023, since in 2002 The low voltage electro-technical regulation came into force, and enabled this type of adaptation certificates for:

• Make reforms
• Small power increases.
• Rehabilitation of supply.
• Chang the name 
• Reviews for sales.

Therefore, it was a very useful tool for those homes that had been made prior to 2002, and that they wanted to make regularizations of any kind.

On many occasions, with this simple adaptation document or bulletin, users did not have to completely modify the installation to adapt it to the regulation that came into force as of 2002.

This meant that the industry council accepted that an old installation that met the parameters of the DECREE 161/2006, of November 8 and that was normally a simple review of four or five parameters, they could regularize their status. 

Infinity of houses that had been interrupted the supply that had a contract to cancel, could be rehabilitated if I complied with the installation with the minimum security required in the 1972 regulation, and under which their house had been made.

This regulation already adapted, which is now 20 years old, will be terminated in September 2022 according to a provision  DECREE law 15/2020, of September 10. Now we are going to see what this change means in practice.

There you have a Little summary for those who do not want to read the complete decree: (the date of September 11, 2022 has been extended to December 2023)

C.I's (Installation Certificates) can only be made from December 20233

Once this time period has expired, If we want to make any changes to the installation, if the electricity is cut off, if the contract is canceled, if we want to sell the house and the notary does not require a review bulletin or the original bulletin, we will have to make an installation certificate.

The installation certificate implies that our installation must meet the requirements of the new regulation which came into force in 2002. This would not be an inconvenience for any house built from this period onwards, but it will be for old or local houses.

The installation certificate is subject to a regulation that obliges old installations to carry out profound electrical reforms and in most cases masonry works

To give just one example, the connection would have to be changed, the electrical panel completely modified, new lines and new sockets added. 

On many occasions, the facilities being old, the pipes do not accept the introduction of new lines, so it is usually common to have to break the walls or the floor to install new ducts to accommodate the new installation.

If you have an old installation, and you want to save all this money and inconvenience, it is better that you do a CAI preventively, before its validity expires

contact with us if you want more information or that we visit you. You can check what the protocol for making a certificate in our YouTube channel, or in this link

Inspections in residential buildings over 100 kW and 10 years old

Since the law was established In 2016, with the aim of keeping the electrical installations in common areas in order, the Ministry of Industry has regulated inspections in residential buildings.

We are going to go into more detail about this recently applied rule in the Canary Islands.

These will be subject to a periodic inspection to be carried out each 10 years, there are many doubts that affect us if we live in a community of owners.

Only in the case that the total installed power (homes and common areas) is greater than 100 Kw.

It can be a vertical residential building or a residential of chalets or townhouses.

If the combined power of the dwellings (about 5750 watts each) and common services, such as public lighting, elevator etc, add up to that amount, this rule will be applied sooner or later.

The communities of owners must be the first to want to have their common service facilities updated and with the maximum security.

Something that we have to take into account is that although the power calculation is carried out by counting the installation of the interior of the houses, the inspections are only of the common zones.

To implement this inspection procedure in residential buildings, there are some initial conditions.

How the inspection is carried out

The authorized control bodies (O.C.A.) will notify the property of the visit for the inspection.

Once the technician has thoroughly reviewed the common areas regarding electrical installations, a report will be issued.

If the report contains serious or very serious defects, this document will allow time (which varies depending on the severity of the anomalies), for the property to correct these defects.

Once the process is finished, the installer of the company that performs the repair service will issue a specific certificate for this type of revision.

If you have already received the notification from the industry council, contact us and we will visit you.

Maybe you need to see the law to study it in more depth, click here

If we don't have a receipt on hand, and we want to find out how to know the contracted power in a meter of our home or premises directly consulting the measurement equipment, look this video with practical instructions.

The easiest way to see the contracted power is to see it in our electricity bill, or lose a little time and call the supply company.

That is why it is important if we are professionals in the sector and How to know the contracted power in a meter of our client for any procedure or reform, that important information.

Either because our client cannot give us that information quickly, or because we are in front of the measurement team, this method is fast and easy to find out.

This information is needed by professionals for a multitude of procedures, such as these:

• Increases or decreases in power.
• Creation of installation certificates.
• Rate changes for save money
• Changes in time discrimination.

You will have already seen in the video at the top of the article how easy it is to review this data. Sometimes a process for increasing or decreasing the contracted power begins, and it takes a while to complete, or the next receipt just arrives, and to our dismay, the power has not been changed due to some error.

In this way, we can see this data in our measurement equipment without waiting the next receipt.

It is also a very good idea use the app corresponding to each company to have all the information in real time.

You can see a standard receipt format, and where you can find the contracted power. Although it is true that each company has different formats, this one below is just an example of a receipt from Endesa.

Here you have an example.

To know about the interpretation of electricity bills, as well as to understand them, I am going to provide you this link where you will find detailed information, since this entry is only to find out the power of a remote management meter.

Y si queréis una información mas completa del funcionamiento de los menus de este tipo de contadores, os adjunto este enlace de otra página web, mucho mas completo que el que os traigo

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