Estimated cost, income & electricity supply
6.—(1) The estimated quarterly obligation period payment cost in respect of a quarterly obligation period (“the rate period”) is the sum of the revenue collection counterparty’s estimate of—
(a)any SoS repayment in respect of that rate period, and
(b)the revenue collection counterparty’s estimate, made in accordance with the revenue collection contracts, of the GP required to be paid by the revenue collection counterparty in respect of that rate period.
(2) The estimated quarterly obligation period income in respect of the rate period is the sum of—
(a)any SoS funds that the Secretary of State has specified will be available in respect of that rate period and that the Secretary of State has specified should be taken into account when calculating the interim levy rate under regulation 5 or adjusting the levy rate under regulation 12 (as applicable); and
(b)the revenue collection counterparty’s estimate, having regard to the matters set out in paragraph (3), of the CP that will be paid to the revenue collection counterparty in respect of that rate period.
(3) The matters referred to in paragraph (2)(b) are—
(a)the revenue collection counterparty’s estimate, made in accordance with the revenue collection contracts, of the CP required to be paid to the revenue collection counterparty during the rate period, and
(b)the revenue collection counterparty’s estimate of the likelihood of the RCC parties failing to make the payments required under the revenue collection contracts.
(4) The estimated quarterly obligation period electricity supply in respect of the rate period is the amount of electricity which the revenue collection counterparty estimates will be supplied by all electricity suppliers in the rate period, less the amount of EII excluded electricity which it estimates will be supplied by all suppliers in that rate period.
(5) In this regulation “CP”, “GP” and “SoS repayment” have the meaning given in regulation 4.