The Electricity (Exemption from the Requirement for a Generation Licence) (Berry Burn) Order 2014

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Electricity (Exemption from the Requirement for a Generation Licence) (Berry Burn) Order 2014 and comes into force on 19th February 2014.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” means the Electricity Act 1989;

“the company” means Berry Burn Wind Farm Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 4511914;

“the generating station” means the Berry Burn onshore wind farm, an electricity generating station whose entrance is located at Ordnance Survey map reference NJ 06169 45610, near Inverness, Scotland;

“the total system” means all transmission systems and distribution systems, located in Great Britain, of holders of licences under section 6(1)(b) and (c) of the Act(1) (transmission and distribution licences).

Exemption from section 4(1)(a) of the Act

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the company is granted exemption from section 4(1)(a) of the Act (prohibition of unlicensed generation of electricity for supply) in respect of the generating station.

(2) The exemption granted in paragraph (1) is subject to compliance with the following conditions—

(a) that the generating station is connected to the total system;

(b) that, except in circumstances outside the reasonable control of the company, the generating station does not export more than 100 megawatts of electrical power to the total system; and

(c) that the company does not hold a licence under section 6(1)(a) of the Act.

Michael Fallon

Minister of State

Department of Energy and Climate Change

20th January 2014