UK Statutory Instrument
2009
United Kingdom
Renewables Obligation Order 2009
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What this Act requires
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Schedules
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The Authority must establish and maintain the Register referred to...
The substitute cannot be the registered holder of a ROC...
The Register may be amended by a decision of the...
The contents of the Register (including the entries referred to...
Where any person considers that an entry maintained in respect...
The Authority must in any procedural guidelines which it produces...
“Banking day” means a day on which banks are generally...
The Register must identify whether or not a ROC subsists...
Particulars of a ROC comprise— (a) the name of the...
A person may only be the registered holder of a...
The Authority may from time to time draw up procedural...
The Authority must delete from the Register—
Where the registered holder of a ROC and a person...
Where the Authority receives requests under paragraph 7(a) it must...
Where— (a) a ROC is issued under this Order, or...
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Citation, commencement and extent
Interpretation
Waste as a renewable source
Biomass and fuels which are to be treated as biomass
The renewables obligation
Part of calculation A referable to Great Britain
Part of calculation A referable to Northern Ireland
Calculation A
Calculation B
Calculation C
Determining the total number of renewables obligation certificates to be produced in an obligation period
Determining the number of renewables obligation certificates to be produced by a designated electricity supplier in order to discharge its renewables obligation
Further provision in relation to the production of renewables obligation certificates
Matters to be certified by ROCs
When electricity is to be regarded as supplied to customers in Great Britain or Northern Ireland
When electricity used in a permitted way for ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(7) or (8) of
Excluded generating stations
Generating stations first commissioned before 1st January 1990
Generating stations generating under arrangements referred to in the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992
Generating stations in respect of which a NFFO arrangement applied but was terminated
Non-commissioned generating stations in respect of which a NFFO arrangement applies
Circumstances in which no ROCs are to be issued in respect of electricity generated from renewable sources
Circumstances in which no ROCs are to be issued by virtue of section 32C(8)(a) of the Act
ROCs to be issued by Authority in respect of a generating station’s renewable output
Calculating a generating station’s renewable output
Renewable output of a qualifying combined heat and power generating station
The amount of electricity to be stated in each ROC
Qualifying combined heat and power generating stations
Microgenerators
Generating stations which were accredited as at 11th July 2006
Generating stations which were accredited, or held preliminary accreditation, as at 31st March 2009
Generating stations in respect of which a statutory grant has been awarded
Review of banding provisions
Issue of ROCs to generators and suppliers
Issue of ROCs to agents
General criteria for the issue of ROCs
Criteria applicable to ROCs where article
Further criterion applicable to ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(3) and (5) of the Act where electricity generated otherwise than on land
Further criteria applicable to ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(3) to (6) of the Act
Further criteria applicable to ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(5), (6) and (8) of the Act
Refusing to issue and revoking ROCs
Interpretation
Payments to discharge the renewables obligation
Late payments to discharge the renewables obligation
Dealing with the buy-out fund: payments into the Consolidated Fund and to the Northern Ireland authority
Dealing with the late payment fund: payments into the Consolidated Fund and to the Northern Ireland authority
Dealing with the buy-out and late payment funds: payments to United Kingdom suppliers
Shortfall in the buy-out and late payment funds: the total mutualisation sum
Payments to be made by suppliers towards the total mutualisation sum
Circumstances in which payments towards the total mutualisation sum are to be re‑calculated
Re-calculated payments to be made by suppliers towards the total mutualisation sum and repayments by
Payments to be made to suppliers out of the mutualisation fund
Provision of information to the Authority
Information to be provided to the Authority where electricity is generated from biomass
Provision of information to the Secretary of State
Exchange of information with the Northern Ireland authority
Functions of the Authority
Preliminary accreditation and accreditation of generating stations
ROC Register
Modification of this Order in relation to microgenerators in certain circumstances
Revocation, transitional and savings
Enforcement and responsible bodies
The regulators that administer or enforce this legislation.
Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
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