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Further information and a comprehensive description of duties can be obtained by contacting the Court Services Agency on recruitment.courts@courtservices.mt. Applications will be received till Friday 23rd February 2024 at 13:00 hrs. Eligibility JobsPlus Permit No. 37/2024 Enemalta in race against darkness to avert repeat outages power outrage in July 2023, was completely unforeseen. Enemalta is now anticipating "that demand in the summer of 2024 will rise even higher" and if the emergency plant is not in place by next summer, "it will not be able to guarantee the security of electricity supply." While noting that Enemalta is investing in the second Malta-Sic- ily interconnector which will be in place in three or four years, the country is facing an "interim period" during which Enemalta must secure its electricity supply through "alternative means" and that it must do so "by May 2024 at the very least." The procurement and delivery of the new plant was expected to take between six and eight months which means that "the permitting process must be necessarily car- ried out in parallel with the pro- curement process." Fava acknowledged that the scale of the project will require an EIA but this would also mean that it would be impossible to have the plant operational by summer. Underlining the urgency of the new plant Fava warned that "the length of time required for the EIA process would without doubt, pre- vent Enemalta from averting a sit- uation which could be potentially worse than last summer, in which a significant number of customers would likely be without electricity supply for a considerable period." Fava described such a scenario as "a real threat to the health and wellbeing of many people as well as their economic welfare." Fava insisted that the situation was unprecedented and was not even foreseen in a study conduct- ed by Electricite de France in 2021, which projected that a peak de- mand of 644 MW would not be reached before 2029. But this peak was already sur- passed in July 2024 when peak demand reached 683 MW. In his letter Fava partly blamed the unforeseen spike in demand on climate change "which has creat- ed extreme weather conditions, including long periods of extreme heat during the summer months," while adding that "such conditions will be ex- p e r i e n c e d again in the summer of 2024." EIA exemp- tion granted On 12 January ERA concluded that since the project is not likely to have a significant impact on the environment, the submission of an EIA is not required. Enemalta's project statement says the 60MW back-up is re- quired for seasonal peaks in winter, main- ly in January and Febru- ary, and in summer between June and September, apart from "emergency situations when one of the country's principal electric- ity supplies fails during peak de- mand." These emergency situations include periods when Malta is disconnected from the Euro- pean grid following faults or damages to the interconnector and instances of severe weather conditions affecting the port of Delimara, and in particular the floating LNG storage vessel, for extended periods. By not exceeding 500 operating hours per year, the plant can only be used for a maximum of 20 days a year. The installation of the temporary emergency plant will be located in two sites, in close proximity to each other: each will generate 30MW at any instance, produced by two 40-foot mobile, container- ized diesel-based generators. Enemalta CEO Ryan Fava (inset) says the new plant is needed to make up for the unprecedented increase in energy demand