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The Feed-in Tariffs Order 2012

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15.—(1) Where an application has been made to the Authority—

(a)for accreditation of an eligible installation as mentioned in article 4(a); or

(b)for preliminary accreditation of an eligible installation,

before granting accreditation or preliminary accreditation the Authority must determine the site of the eligible installation in accordance with this article.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (5), the Authority must determine the site of an installation by reference to such of the following criteria as the Authority considers appropriate—

(a)the meter point administration number (“MPAN”) of the meter measuring the supply of electricity to the premises at which the installation is, or is to be, located;

(b)the address of the premises at which the installation is, or is to be, located;

(c)the Ordnance Survey grid reference at which the installation is, or is to be, located; and

(d)any other factors which the Authority considers relevant.

(3) Where—

(a)two installations (“A” and “B”) share, or are to share, a single grid connection;

(b)A and B are not otherwise electrically or mechanically connected; and

(c)any of the circumstances in paragraph (4) applies,

paragraph (2)(a) is not to be taken into account in determining the site of A or B.

(4) The circumstances in this paragraph are that—

(a)A and B are, or are to be, attached to separate self-contained private residential dwellings;

(b)A and B are, or are to be, hydro generating stations which are supplied with water by or from different civil works;

(c)A and B are, or are to be, hydro generating stations which are supplied with water by or from the same civil works, and A or B consists of one or more turbines (with their associated infrastructure) driven by a compensation flow supplied by or from those civil works in a natural water course where there is a statutory obligation to maintain that compensation flow in that water course.

[F1(d)at least one of A or B is owned, or is to be owned, by a community organisation and the conditions in paragraph (7) are met.]

F2(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) In this article, “civil works”, in relation to a hydro generating station, means all man-made structures or works for holding water which are located on the inlet side of a turbine (turbine A), other than any such structures or works which supply water to another turbine before water is supplied to the structures or works which supply turbine A.

[F3(7) The conditions referred to in paragraph (4)(d) are that—

(a)only A and B share, or are to share, the single grid connection referred to in paragraph (3)(a); and

(b)for both A and B—

(i)the Tariff Dates; or

(ii)the Eligibility Dates,

are on or after 1st April 2015.]

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