Part IVU.K. Amendment of the Electricity Act 1989

Electricity from renewable sourcesU.K.

65 Alternative way of discharging renewables obligation: payments.U.K.

After section 32B of the 1989 Act there is inserted—

“32C Payment as alternative to complying with order under section 32.

(1)An order under section 32 may provide that instead of producing evidence under section 32(3), an electricity supplier may discharge (in whole or in part) its renewables obligation (or its obligation in relation to a particular period) by making a payment to the Authority.

(2)The order may make provision—

(a)as to the sum which for the purposes of subsection (1) is to correspond to the supply of a given amount of electricity;

(b)for different such sums in relation to different periods;

(c)for different such sums in relation to electricity generated in different ways specified in the order (such as those referred to in section 32A(1)(b) and (c)); and

(d)for any such sum to be adjusted from time to time for inflation by a method specified in the order (which may refer to a specified scale or index or to other specified data of any description, including such a scale or index or such data in a form not current when the order was made, but in a subsequent form attributable to revision or any other cause and taking effect afterwards).

(3)The Authority must pay the amounts received to electricity suppliers in accordance with a system of allocation specified in the order.

(4)The system of allocation specified in the order may provide for payments to specified categories of electricity supplier only.”

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