The Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2013

Made: 26th March 2013

Coming into force: 1st April 2013

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Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

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Amendments to article 2 of the 2009 Order (interpretation)

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Amendment to article 4 (biomass and fuels which are to be treated as biomass)

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Amendments to article 13 (further provision in relation to the production of renewables obligation certificates)

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Amendments to article 22 (circumstances in which no ROCs are to be issued in respect of electricity generated from renewable sources)

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Amendment to article 24 (ROCs to be issued by Authority in respect of a generating station's renewable output)

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Amendments to article 25 (calculating a generating station's renewable output)

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Amendments to article 26 (renewable output of a qualifying combined heat and power generating station)

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Amendment to article 27 (the amount of electricity to be stated in each ROC)

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Substitution of article 28 (qualifying combined heat and power generating stations)

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Co-firing

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Amendment to article 29 (microgenerators)

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Amendments to article 30 (generating stations which were accredited as at 11th July 2006)

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Amendments to article 30A (offshore wind generating stations using relevant wind turbines)

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Wave and tidal stream generating stations

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Amendments to article 31 (generating stations which were accredited, or held preliminary accreditation, as at 31st March 2009)

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Amendment to article 32 (generating stations in respect of which a statutory grant has been awarded)

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Amendments to article 33 (review of banding provisions)

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Amendment to article 36 (general criteria for the issue of ROCs)

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Amendments to article 54 (information to be provided to the Authority where electricity is generated from biomass or fossil derived bioliquid)

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Amendments to article 54A (bioliquid sustainability audit report)

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Registration as a grace period generating station

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Amendment to article 60 (modification of this Order in relation to microgenerators in certain circumstances)

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Amendments to Part 1 of Schedule 2 (interpretation)

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Substitution of Part 2 of Schedule 2 (amount of electricity to be stated in ROCs generally)

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Amount of electricity to be stated in ROCs issued for electricity generated using 2013/14 capacity, 2014/15 capacity, 2015/16 capacity or post-2016 capacity

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Transitional provision

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Signed

John Hayes — Minister of State — 26th March 2013

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1989 c.29, sections 32 to 32M were substituted by section 37 of the Energy Act 2008 (c.32) for sections 32 to 32C. Section 32M(1) was amended by article 2 of S.I. 2011/984.

[^f00002]: 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).

[^f00003]: Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 and was amended by article 3 of S.I. 2007/1388 and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2010/761.

[^f00005]: OJ L 140, 5.6.2009, p.16.

[^f00006]: S.I. 2009/785 as amended by S.I. 2010/1107, S.I. 2011/984 and S.I. 2011/988.

[^f00007]: Section 32L(1) of the 1989 Act refers to “the Authority”, this is defined in section 111(1) as inserted by paragraph 40(a) of Schedule 6 to the Utilities Act 2000 (c.27).

[^f00008]: Section 32L(1) of the 1989 Act refers to “the Council”, this is defined in section 111(1) as substituted by section 30(4)(b) of the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 (c.17).

[^f00009]: Article 2 was amended by article 3 of S.I. 2011/984 and by paragraph 29 of Schedule 4 to S.I. 2011/988.

[^f00010]: Article 22 was amended by article 9 of S.I. 2011/984.

[^f00011]: 2008 c.32.

[^f00012]: 2010 c.4

[^f00013]: Article 30A was inserted by article 9 of S.I. 2010/1107 and amended by article 11 of S.I. 2011/984.

[^f00014]: Article 54 was amended by article 13 of S.I. 2010/1107 and by article 12 of S.I. 2011/984.

[^f00015]: Article 54A was inserted by article 13 of S.I. 2011/984.

[^f00016]: Part 1 of Schedule 2 was amended by article 16 of S.I. 2010/1107.

[^f00017]: OJ L 9, 13.1.2011, p.11

Editorial notes

[^key-2f2fa023e3f0241e213d376bda3d074b]: Order revoked (1.12.2015) by The Renewables Obligation Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1947), art. 95(1)(b)(iv)

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