64 Green certificates.U.K.
After section 32A of the 1989 Act there is inserted—
“32B Green certificates.
(1)An order under section 32 may provide for the Authority to issue from time to time, in accordance with such criteria (if any) as are specified in the order, a certificate to the operator of a generating station or to an electricity supplier.
(2)A certificate is to certify—
(a)that the generating station or, in the case of a certificate issued to an electricity supplier, a generating station specified in the certificate, has generated from renewable sources the amount of electricity stated in the certificate; and
(b)that it has been supplied to customers in Great Britain (or the part of Great Britain stated in the certificate).
(3)If an electricity supplier produces a certificate to the Authority, it is to count for the purposes of section 32(3) as sufficient evidence of the facts certified.”
Commencement Information
I1S. 64 wholly in force at 1.10.2001; s. 64 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 110(2); s. 64 in force at 1.10.2001 by S.I. 2001/3266, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-20)