http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1947/article/45The Renewables Obligation Order 2015texttext/xmlenStatute Law DatabaseELECTRICITY, ENGLAND AND WALES2026-04-26Expert Participation2026-03-27 This Order consolidates and re-enacts the Renewables Obligation Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/785) (the “2009 Order”) as amended and makes new provision. It imposes an obligation (“the renewables obligation”), on all electricity suppliers licensed under the Electricity Act 1989 (“the Act”) which supply electricity in England and Wales, to produce a certain number of renewables obligation certificates in respect of each megawatt hour of electricity that each supplies to customers in England and Wales during a specified period known as an “obligation period” (article 7). It also “bands” the different technologies that are used to generate electricity from renewable sources, meaning that the number of certificates that will be issued in respect of that electricity depends on the way in which that electricity has been generated. The renewables obligation is administered by the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (“the Authority”) who issues renewable obligation certificates to renewable electricity generators based on their renewable output. These certificates are sold to electricity suppliers with or without the associated renewable electricity. The Renewables Obligation Order 2015 PART 7 451This article applies to a generating station where excluded capacity forms all or part of the total installed capacity of the station.2ROCs are not to be issued in respect of any electricity generated in any month by a generating station to which this article applies unless during that month—aall of the electricity generated by the station using the excluded capacity is measured separately from any electricity generated by the station using RO capacity, orball of the electricity generated by the station using RO capacity is measured separately from any electricity generated by the station using the excluded capacity.3ROCs are not to be issued in respect of any electricity generated using excluded capacity.4In this article, “excluded capacity” means—agenerating capacity which—iin the Authority's view formed part of a generating station from a date no earlier than 1st April 2014,iidoes not form part of the original capacity of the station,iiiis not registered under article 92, andivis not an offshore wind turbine;ban offshore wind turbine which—iforms part of a generating station accredited on or before 31st March 2011,iidoes not form part of the original capacity of the station,iiiwas not used to generate electricity before 1st April 2011, andivis not registered under article 91;can offshore wind turbine which—iforms part of a generating station first accredited after 31st March 2011, andiiis not registered under article 91;da combustion unit in relation to which a capacity market transfer notice (within the meaning of article 48(3)) has come into force; orea combustion unit in relation to which a CFD transfer notice (within the meaning of article 50(3))—ihas come into force, ...ii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5For the purposes of paragraph (4)—athe date on which a capacity market transfer notice comes into force is to be determined in accordance with article 48(6), andbthe date on which a CFD transfer notice comes into force is to be determined in accordance with article 50(7).Art. 45(4)(e)(ii) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Renewables Obligation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/35), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)