PART 9Provision of information
Provision of information to determine whether a ROC is to be, or should have been, issued80
1
Without prejudice to article 78, the Authority may, by the date (if any) specified by it, require a person to provide it with information which in its opinion is relevant to the question whether a ROC is, or was or will in future be, required to be issued to the person.
2
Without prejudice to paragraph (1) and article 78, for the purposes of determining the RO eligible renewable output of a generating station in a month (“the relevant month”) the operator of the station must provide the Authority with figures showing—
a
the total input electricity and the RO input electricity used by the station in the relevant month, and
b
the total output electricity and the RO output electricity of the station in that month,
by the end of the second month following the relevant month (and those figures may be estimated if the Authority has agreed to estimates being provided and to the way in which those estimates are to be calculated).
3
Nothing in paragraph (2) prevents the Authority from accepting figures, or further figures, provided after the end of the second month following the relevant month if the Authority considers it appropriate to do so.
4
Without prejudice to paragraph (1) and article 78, for the purposes of determining whether a ROC certifying the matters within section 32B(5), (6) or (8) of the Act should be issued the person to whom any such ROC would be issued must provide the Authority with—
a
a figure representing the amount of electricity in respect of which ROCs should (in that person's opinion) be issued, and
b
the data on which that person relied in arriving at that figure.
5
Information requested under or required to be provided by this article must be given to the Authority in whatever form it requires.
6
Any information which—
a
is relevant to the question whether a ROC is to be issued, and
b
is requested by or required to be provided to the Authority under this article or article 78,
must be (in the Authority's opinion) accurate and reliable.
7
Where such information relates to the fuel used in the generation of that electricity and the fuel did not originate at the generating station, in determining whether that information is accurate and reliable the Authority must have regard to—
a
the distance over which the fuel was transported, and
b
the conditions under which the fuel was prepared and transported.