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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2014 No. 893
9.—(1) Article 26 of the 2009 Order(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In the heading, before “renewable output” insert “RO eligible”.
(3) In paragraph (1), before “renewable output” insert “RO eligible”.
(4) In paragraph (2), for “gross output” substitute “RO output electricity”.
(5) For paragraph (3) substitute—
“(3) For paragraph (4)(d)(i) and (ii) of that article, substitute—
“(i)N is the energy content of the renewable sources used in generating the station’s RO output electricity in the way in question during that month less the energy content of—
(aa)any fossil fuel from which those renewable sources are in part composed (other than fossil fuel from which a fuel the energy content of which is deducted by virtue of sub-paragraph (bb) is in part composed);
(bb)except in the case of an excepted generating station, any of those renewable sources which is a gaseous fuel produced by means of gasification or pyrolysis and which has a gross calorific value, when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the station, of less than 2 megajoules per metre cubed; and
(ii)P is the energy content of all of the renewable sources used in generating the station’s RO output electricity during that month less the energy content of—
(aa)any fossil fuel from which those renewable sources are in part composed (other than fossil fuel from which a fuel the energy content of which is deducted by virtue of sub-paragraph (bb) is in part composed);
(bb)except in the case of an excepted generating station, any of those renewable sources which is a gaseous fuel produced by means of gasification or pyrolysis and which has a gross calorific value, when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the station, of less than 2 megajoules per metre cubed.”.”
Article 26 was amended by article 8 of S.I. 2013/768.
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