The mixed value method must not be used for the...
- Do not use the mixed value method for bioliquid greenhouse gas calculations unless the bioliquid is listed in the Renewables Directive annex Any Person
UK Statutory Instrument
2015
United Kingdom
The Renewables Obligation Order 2015
At a glance
Enforced by
What's here
10 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Operator 5
- Any Person 2
Plus 3 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
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Operators also bound by 730 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (Air Operations) 2012 138 duties
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (Text with EEA relevance) 2018 121 duties
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 of 21 June 2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed) 2012 112 duties
- Space Industry Regulations 2021 2021 75 duties
- Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’) (Text with EEA relevance) 2016 66 duties
Any Person also bound by 2338 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Human Medicines Regulations 2012 2012 169 duties
- Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1995 144 duties
- Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 2016 101 duties
- Road Traffic Act 1988 1988 95 duties
- Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 95 duties
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
The default percentage must not be used in relation to...
- Do not use default percentage for certain bioliquids unless calculation shows zero or less Operator
The default value method must not be used to calculate...
- Do not use the default value method to calculate biomass emissions unless conditions are met Any Person
The contents of the Register (including the entries referred to...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Ofgem must make the ROC Register available for public inspection and provide written statements on request Statutory regulator
Where— (a) a ROC is issued under this Order, or...
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Ofgem must notify ROC holders within 5 banking days of issue or substitution Statutory regulator
Browse 51 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
Interpretation
The greenhouse gas criteria
Calculating the percentage difference
Where the mixed value method is used for the purposes...
Interpretation
The greenhouse gas criteria
Calculating the greenhouse gas emissions
For the purposes of paragraph 4(c), paragraph 7 of Part...
Where the greenhouse gas emissions from the use of biomass...
In paragraph 6— (a) η e l
The greenhouse gas emissions from the use of biomass are...
In paragraph 8— (a) η e l
Interpretation
Land criteria: bioliquids
Land criteria: woody biomass
Land criteria: other fuels
Protected sources
Sustainable source
Exempt purposes
The Register must be at one or more of the...
The substitute cannot be the registered holder of a ROC...
The Register may be amended by a decision of the...
Where any person considers that an entry maintained in respect...
The Authority must in any procedural guidelines which it produces...
In this Schedule, “banking day” means a day on which...
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(b) it must...
(1) In this Schedule— “2009/11 dedicated biomass station” means a...
Interpretation
Article 27 modified (meaning of RO output electricity)
Article 28 modified (ROCs to be issued by the Authority in respect of a generating station’s RO eligible renewable output)
Article 29 modified (calculating a generating station’s RO eligible renewable output)
Article 30 modified (calculating the RO eligible renewable output of a qualifying CHP station)
Article 31 modified (calculating the amount of electricity generated by a particular category of generating capacity)
Article 32 modified (calculating the amount of electricity generated in a particular way)
Article 43 modified (generating stations not compliant with accreditation or metering requirements)
Article 80 modified (provision of information to determine whether a ROC is to be, or should have been, issued)
Schedule 5 modified (electricity to be stated in ROCs)
Meaning of “exempt combustion unit”
Capped generating stations in the 2018/19 obligation period
Capped generating stations in the 2019/20 obligation period and subsequent obligation periods
Mixed generating stations in the 2018/19 obligation period
Mixed generating stations in the 2019/20 obligation period and subsequent obligation periods
Order applies with modifications to determine whether ROCs are to be issued to mixed generating stations
Article 2 modified (interpretation)
New article 26A inserted
Provision of information to determine whether a ROC is to be, or should have been, issued
- Provide accurate generation data to Ofgem for ROC claims Operator
Information to be provided to the Authority where electricity is generated from biomass
- Report biomass fuel and sustainability data to Ofgem by 30 June Operator
Solid and gaseous biomass sustainability audit report
- Submit an independent sustainability audit report for biomass by 30 June Operator
Registration of offshore wind turbines
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Ofgem must register offshore wind turbines and notify operator upon compliant application Statutory regulator
Registration of additional capacity
- Register additional generating capacity with Ofgem to claim ROCs Operator
Browse 95 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation, commencement and extent
Interpretation
Biomass and fuels which are to be treated as biomass
Fossil derived bioliquid
Waste as a renewable source
Grace period generating stations
The renewables obligation
Part of calculation A referable to Great Britain
Part of calculation A referable to Northern Ireland
Calculation A
Calculation B
Determining the total number of UK ROCs to be produced in an obligation period
Determining the number of UK ROCs to be produced by a designated electricity supplier in order to discharge its renewables obligation
Determining the number of UK ROCs to be produced by a designated electricity supplier in order to discharge its renewables obligation: obligation periods beginning on or after 1st April 2019
Revising the number of UK ROCs to be produced by a designated electricity supplier for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 obligation periods
Revision of the obligation level published on 27th September 2023 in respect of the 2024/25 obligation period
Further provision in relation to the production of UK ROCs
Matters to be certified by ROCs
When electricity is to be regarded as supplied to customers in Great Britain or Northern Ireland
When electricity is used in a permitted way for ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(7) or (8) of the Act
Issue of ROCs to generators and suppliers
Issue of ROCs to agents
Confirmations required from the person being issued with a ROC
Further confirmations required for ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(3) and (5) of the Act where electricity generated otherwise than on land
Further confirmations required for ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(3) to (6) of the Act
Further confirmations required for ROCs certifying matters within section 32B(5), (6) and (8) of the Act
Refusing to issue and revoking ROCs
Where ROCs cannot be revoked
Meaning of RO input electricity
Meaning of RO output electricity
ROCs to be issued by the Authority in respect of a generating station's RO eligible renewable output
Calculating a generating station's RO eligible renewable output
Calculating the RO eligible renewable output of a qualifying CHP station
Calculating the amount of electricity generated by a particular category of generating capacity
Calculating the amount of electricity generated in a particular way
The amount of electricity to be stated in each ROC
Microgenerators
Electricity generated by qualifying
Low-range co-firing of relevant energy crops
Generating stations which were accredited as at 11th July 2006
Landfill gas and sewage gas generating stations which were accredited, or held preliminary accreditation, as at 31st March 2009
Offshore wind turbines installed between 2006 and 2010
Wave and tidal stream generating stations
Generating stations in respect of which a statutory grant has been awarded
Review of banding provisions
Generating stations not compliant with accreditation or metering requirements
Maximum period of eligibility for ROCs
Generating stations using excluded capacity to generate electricity
Generating stations located outside England and Wales
Electricity supplied to customers in Northern Ireland
Combustion units in relation to which a capacity agreement has been issued
Electricity in respect of which a CFD or investment contract applies
Combustion units in relation to which a CFD or investment contract has been entered into
Generating stations supported or potentially eligible for support under a feed-in tariff scheme
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
Large hydro generating stations first commissioned on or before 1st April 2002
Generating stations first commissioned before 1st January 1990
Generating stations using peat
Generating stations using landfill gas
Generating stations using gaseous fuel produced by means of gasification or pyrolysis
Generating stations using Solid Recovered Fuel
Generating stations using waste or fossil fuel
Circumstances in which ROCs must not be issued in respect of electricity generated from bioliquid
Common agricultural policy requirements in the case of bioliquids
Circumstances in which ROCs must not be issued in respect of electricity generated from solid or gaseous biomass
Cases where a renewables obligation certificate has already been issued
Cases and circumstances when a ROC must not be issued: general provisions
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 UK suppliers
Determining whether a relevant shortfall has occurred
Calculating the total mutualisation sum in the case of a relevant shortfall
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 the Authority
Payments to be made to suppliers out of the mutualisation fund
Provision of information required by the Authority to carry out its functions
Provision of information to determine whether a supplier is discharging its renewables obligation
Notification by the operator of a low-range co-firing combustion unit
Bioliquid sustainability audit report
Determination of matters by the Authority
Functions of the Authority
Exchange of information with the Northern Ireland Authority
Preliminary accreditation of generating stations
Accreditation of generating stations
Preliminary accreditation and accreditation: common provisions
ROC Register
Modification of this Order in relation to microgenerators in certain circumstances
Revocation and savings
Transitional provisions
Consequential amendments to the Renewables Obligation Closure Order 2014
Official guidance
Authoritative sources published by regulators or government explaining this legislation.
- The UK Biomass and Bioliquid Carbon Calculator | Ofgem (opens in a new tab) from Ofgem Detailed Guidance
- Renewables Obligation (RO) Buy-out Price and Mutualisation Ceilings for 2020-21 | Ofgem (opens in a new tab) from Ofgem Detailed Guidance
- Renewables Obligation (RO) Buy-out Price and Mutualisation Ceilings for 2019-20 | Ofgem (opens in a new tab) from Ofgem Detailed Guidance
- Renewables Obligation (RO) buy-out price and mutualisation ceilings for 2018-19 RO Year | Ofgem (opens in a new tab) from Ofgem Detailed Guidance
- March 2016 changes to the Non-Domestic RHI regulations | Ofgem (opens in a new tab) from Ofgem Detailed Guidance
Enforcement and responsible bodies
The regulators that administer or enforce this legislation.
Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
Regulates gas and electricity markets in Great Britain. Issues licences for generation, transmission, distribution, and supply. Protects consumers and promotes competition. Also …
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