The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2014

RO eligible renewable output of a qualifying combined heat and power generating station

11.—(1) Article 26(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In the cross heading, for “Renewable” substitute “RO eligible renewable” .

(3) In paragraph (1), before “renewable output” insert “RO eligible”.

(4) In paragraph (2), for “gross output” substitute “RO output electricity”.

(5) For paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) For paragraph (5)(h) and (i) of that article, substitute—

“(h) N is the energy content of the renewable sources used in generating the station’s RO output electricity in that way during that month less the energy content of—

(i) any fossil fuel from which those renewable sources are in part composed (other than fossil fuel from which a fuel the energy content of which is deducted by virtue of head (ii) is in part composed); and

(ii) except in the case of an excepted generating station, any of those renewable sources which is a gaseous fuel produced by means of gasification or pyrolysis and which has a gross calorific value when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the station of less than 2 megajoules per metre cubed.”; and

(i) P is the energy content of all of the renewable sources used in generating the station’s RO output electricity during that month less the energy content of—

(i) any fossil fuel from which those renewable sources are in part composed (other than fossil fuel from which a fuel the energy content of which is deducted by virtue of head (ii) is in part composed); and

(ii) except in the case of an excepted generating station, any of those renewable sources which is a gaseous fuel produced by means of gasification or pyrolysis and which has a gross calorific value when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the station of less than 2 megajoules per metre cubed.””.

(1)

Article 26 was amended S.S.I. 2013/116.