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2.—[F1(1) For the purposes of these Regulations—
“CHPGO” means a guarantee of origin of electricity produced from high-efficiency cogeneration;
“the CHPGO holder” means the person to whom the CHPGO is issued or transferred;
“CHPQA” means the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance programme referred to in the CHPQA Standard and accompanying CHPQA guidance notes, Issue 6, October 2016, prepared on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ;
“cogeneration” means the simultaneous generation in one process of thermal energy and electrical or mechanical energy;
“cogeneration unit” means a unit that is able to operate in cogeneration mode;
“the competent authority” means the Department for the Economy;
“economically justifiable demand” means demand that does not exceed the needs for heating or cooling and which would otherwise be satisfied at market conditions by energy generation processes other than cogeneration;
“electricity from cogeneration” means electricity generated in a process linked to the production of useful heat and calculated in accordance with the methodology laid down in Schedule 4;
“energy” means all forms of energy products, combustible fuels, heat, renewable energy, electricity, or any other form of energy;
“Energy Efficiency Directive” means Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25th October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC, as it applies in the European Union;
“Great Britain” includes—
the territorial sea of the United Kingdom which is adjacent to Great Britain; and
any area designated under the Continental Shelf Act 1964;
“guarantee of origin” means, except in relation to paragraphs (3) to (5) of regulation 10, a certificate issued by the competent authority certifying that the electricity in respect of which the certificate is issued is electricity produced from high-efficiency cogeneration;
“harmonised efficiency reference values” means the values indicated in paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 and set in accordance with that paragraph and with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2402 of 12 October 2015 reviewing harmonised efficiency reference values for separate production of electricity and heat in application of Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;
“high-efficiency cogeneration” means cogeneration that meets the criteria in Schedule 3;
“micro-cogeneration unit” means a cogeneration unit with a maximum capacity below 50 kilowatt electrical (kWe);
“overall efficiency” means the annual sum of electricity and mechanical energy production and useful heat output divided by the fuel input used for heat produced in a cogeneration process and gross electricity and mechanical energy production;
“power-to-heat ratio” means the ratio of electricity from cogeneration to useful heat when operating in full cogeneration mode using operational data of the specific unit;
“small-scale cogeneration unit” means a cogeneration unit with installed capacity below 1 megawatt electrical (MWe);
“useful heat” means heat produced in a cogeneration process to satisfy economically justifiable demand for heating or cooling.]
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(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Guarantees of Origin of Electricity Produced from High-efficiency Cogeneration (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1206), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Reg. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Guarantees of Origin of Electricity Produced from High-efficiency Cogeneration (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1206), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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