269 ENERGY LAW The design, installation, connection to the system, commissioning, and operation of all electrical storage facilities and, if deemed necessary, testing activities, will be carried out as defined in the relevant technical legislation, relevant standards, and technical criteria. Finally, Article 11 of the Storage Regulation sets forth that an electricity storage facility with a maximum installed power of 1 MW can be established by universities, technology development zones, and industrial zones, in order to be used in R&D activities. The energy supplied by these facilities to the system will not be taken into account in the settlement supply volumes of the relevant market participants. Privatization In accordance with Article 10 of the Storage Regulation, the EMRA will not take any action regarding the land acquisition, or the right of use facility for the electricity storage and connection facilities to be established, except for the electricity storage units integrated with generation facilities. Applications for Storage Facilities Provisional Article 1 of the Storage Regulation states that the applications to be made for the electricity storage units or facilities will start one month after the date of TEIAŞ’s announcement of the criteria in provisional Article 1 of the Electricity Grid Regulation, published in the Official Gazette dated 28/5/2014 and numbered 29013. In accordance with the referenced provision, the relevant criteria will be announced by TEIAS at the beginning of September, at the latest. Therefore, it can be expected that applications for electricity storage facilities will start by no later than 1 October 2021.
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