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Article 3(1)(a)
Persons (other than licensed generators) who do not at any time provide more electrical power from any one generating station than—
(1) 10 megawatts; or
(2) 50 megawatts in the case of a generating station with a declared net capacity of less than 100 megawatts;
disregarding—
(a)power supplied to—
(i)a single consumer who occupies premises which are on the same site as the premises where the generating station is situated and who consumes all the power provided to him from that generating station at those premises or supplies all or some of such power in circumstances specified in the description of Class B in Schedule 4 and consumes at those premises any of such power not so supplied by him; or
(ii)two or more consumers who form a qualifying group each of whom occupies premises which are on the same site as the premises where the generating station is situated and consumes all the power provided to him from that generating station at those premises or supplies all or some of such power in circumstances specified in the description of Class B in Schedule 4 and consumes at those premises any of such power not so supplied by him; and
(b)for the purposes of paragraph (2) above power temporarily provided in excess of 50 megawatts due to technical circumstances outside the reasonable control of the person providing that power.
Persons (other than licensed generators) who—
(1) do not generate electricity except at a generating station which is situated on an offshore installation; and
(2) do not supply such electricity except to premises which constitute or are comprised in an offshore installation.
Persons (other than licensed generators) who do not provide any electrical power except from generating stations which—
(a)on 30th September 2000 were connected to:—
(i)the total system in England and Wales; or
(ii)the total system in Scotland, and
(b)are not normally capable of exporting more than 100 megawatts to the total system in Great Britain, disregarding power temporarily provided in excess of 100 megawatts due to technical circumstances outside the reasonable control of the person providing that power.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 2 substituted (1.4.2005) by The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/488), arts. 1, 4
Persons (other than licensed generators) who do not provide electrical power except from generating stations which were connected to the total system in England and Wales on 30th September 2000, provided that under the terms and conditions of their licences granted under section 6(1)(a) of the Act they were not on that date required to submit those stations to central despatch by the licensed transmitter (central despatch being the process by which the licensed transmitter scheduled and issued direct instructions to licensed generators for the despatch of electrical power prior to 27th March 2001).]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 2 substituted (1.4.2005) by The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/488), arts. 1, 4
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