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PART 2Electricity Market Reform

CHAPTER 3Capacity Market

33Electricity capacity regulations: information and advice

(1)Electricity capacity regulations may make provision about the provision and publication of information.

(2)Provision included in electricity capacity regulations by virtue of subsection (1) may include provision—

(a)for the Secretary of State to require the Authority, the national system operator or any other person specified in the regulations to provide information or advice to the Secretary of State or any other person so specified;

(b)for the Authority or the national system operator to require information to be provided to it by any person specified in the regulations for any purpose so specified;

(c)for the Secretary of State to require capacity providers and electricity suppliers to share information about the operation of capacity agreements with each other or with any other person so specified;

(d)for the publication by any person so specified of any information or advice so specified;

(e)for the classification and protection of confidential or sensitive information.

(3)The prohibition on disclosure of information by section 105(1) of the Utilities Act 2000 does not apply to a disclosure required by virtue of this section.