Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order imposes on Northern Ireland Electricity plc (“NIE”) an obligation to make arrangements to secure the availability, during specified periods, of specified amounts of generating capacity from certain non-fossil fuel generating stations. The arrangements must be made, and evidence of their making must be produced to the Director General of Electricity Supply for Northern Ireland, before 5th September 1996.

Article 2, read with Schedule 1, imposes on NIE an obligation to make arrangements to secure the availability, during specified periods, of specified amounts of generating capacity from non-fossil fuel generating stations of the descriptions specified in Schedule 1. The amounts of generating capacity are specified in megawatts (one megawatt equals one million watts).

Article 3 makes provision whereby, if certain conditions precedent described in Schedule 2 are not satisfied or if certain termination events described in Schedule 3 occur, the Order is to have effect as if the relevant period specified in Schedule 1 were replaced by a different period and, as a consequence, as if the relevant amount of capacity specified in that Schedule were a reduced amount. The amount of that reduction will be the amount of capacity which has ceased to be available by reason of the condition precedent not having been satisfied or the termination event having occurred.