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(1)A renewables obligation order may provide—
(a)that no renewables obligation certificates are to be issued in respect of electricity generated in specified cases or circumstances, or
(b)that renewables obligation certificates are to be issued in respect of a proportion only of the electricity generated in specified cases or circumstances.
(2)In particular, provision made by virtue of subsection (1) may specify—
(a)electricity generated using specified descriptions of renewable sources,
(b)electricity generated by specified descriptions of generating station, or
(c)electricity generated in specified ways.
(3)Provision made by virtue of subsection (1)(b) may include—
(a)provision about how the proportion is to be determined;
(b)provision about what, subject to such exceptions as may be specified, constitutes sufficient evidence of any matter required to be established for the purpose of determining that proportion;
(c)provision authorising the Authority, in specified circumstances, to require an operator of a generating station to arrange—
(i)for samples of any fuel used (or to be used) in the generating station, or of any gas or other substance produced as a result of the use of such fuel, to be taken by a person, and analysed in a manner, approved by the Authority, and
(ii)for the results of that analysis to be made available to the Authority.
(4)In the case of electricity generated by a generating station fuelled or driven—
(a)partly by renewable sources, and
(b)partly by fossil fuel (other than waste which constitutes a renewable source),
only the proportion attributable to the renewable sources is to be regarded as generated from such sources.
(5)A renewables obligation order may specify—
(a)how the proportion referred to in subsection (4) is to be determined, and
(b)the consequences for the issuing of renewables obligation certificates if a generating station of the type mentioned in that subsection uses more than a specified proportion of fossil fuel during a specified period.
(6)Those consequences may include the consequence that no certificates are to be issued in respect of any of the electricity generated by that generating station during that period.
(7)A renewables obligation order may specify circumstances in which the Authority may revoke a renewables obligation certificate before its production for the purposes of the renewables obligation.
(8)A renewables obligation order must—
(a)prohibit the issue of a renewables obligation certificate certifying matters within section 32B(4) or (6) where the Northern Ireland authority has notified the Authority that it is not satisfied that the electricity in question has been supplied to customers in Northern Ireland, and
(b)require the revocation of such a certificate if the Northern Ireland authority so notifies the Authority at a time between the issue of the certificate and its production for the purposes of the renewables obligation.
(9)References in section 32B and this section to the supply of electricity to customers in Northern Ireland are to be construed in accordance with the definition of “supply” in Article 3 of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 32-32M substituted for (26.11.2008 for specified purposes, 1.4.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), ss. 37, 110(1)(a) (with s. 38); S.I. 2009/45, art. 3(a) (with art. 5)
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