The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009

Further provision in relation to the production of renewables obligation certificates

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13.—(1) A designated electricity supplier may discharge its renewables obligation by the production to the Authority of Northern Ireland certificates.

(2) A designated electricity supplier may discharge up to 25 per cent of its renewables obligation in respect of an obligation period by producing to the Authority renewables obligation certificates relating to electricity supplied in the immediately preceding obligation period.

[F1(3) Subject to paragraph (4), no more than 4 per cent of a designated electricity supplier’s renewables obligation may be satisfied by the production of renewables obligation certificates issued in respect of electricity generated from bioliquid.

(4) The limit set out in paragraph (3) does not apply to the production of renewables obligation certificates issued in respect of electricity—

(a)generated by a generating station to which article 29 applies;

(b)generated by a qualifying combined heat and power generating station which has, as at the date of generation of the electricity, a total installed capacity of less than one megawatt;

(c)generated from advanced fuel;

(d)generated in the way described as “energy from waste with CHP” in Schedule 2; or

(e)generated before 1st April 2013.]

(7) A designated electricity supplier must not produce to the Authority a renewables obligation certificate which has previously been or is produced to the Northern Ireland authority under a NIRO Order.

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Textual Amendments

F1Art. 13(3)(4) substituted for art. 13(3)-(6) (1.4.2013) by The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/116), arts. 1(1), 5(2) (with art. 29)