Further provision in relation to production of certificates and NIROCsE+W
14.—(1) A designated electricity supplier may discharge up to 25 per cent of its renewables obligation in respect of an obligation period by producing to the Authority certificates issued by the Authority under section 32B of the Act and eligible NIROCs relating to electricity supplied in the immediately preceding obligation period.
(2) In respect of any obligation period which falls—
(a)from 1st April 2006 until 31st March 2011, no more than 10 per cent; and
(b)from 1st April 2011 until 31st March 2016, no more than 5 per cent,
of a designated electricity supplier’s renewables obligation may be satisfied by the production of certificates issued by the Authority under section 32B of the Act and eligible NIROCs issued in respect of generating stations which during the month to which a certificate or NIROC relates, have been fuelled partly by fossil fuel (as defined in article 8) and partly by biomass (and by no other fuel).
(3) A designated electricity supplier shall not produce to the Authority a certificate issued under section 32B of the Act or a NIROC which has previously been or is simultaneously produced to the Northern Ireland Authority under a NIRO Order.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 14 in force at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(1)