http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1947/article/87The 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 10 871The Authority must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the specified day following an obligation period, notify the Northern Ireland authority of—athe details of each Northern Ireland certificate produced to the Authority by a designated electricity supplier in discharge of that supplier's renewables obligation for that period and the name of the designated electricity supplier in question; andbthe total number of Northern Ireland certificates produced to the Authority in respect of that obligation period.2The Authority must, as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving a notification from the Northern Ireland authority as to the ROC identifiers of ROCs produced to the Northern Ireland authority by Northern Ireland suppliers under any NIRO Order, inform the Northern Ireland authority of—athe ROC identifier of any ROC so notified which the Authority has revoked under article 24 and whether it has issued a replacement ROC in respect of any such ROC (unless that replacement ROC has itself been revoked), andbthe ROC identifier of any ROC so notified that has been produced to the Authority by a designated electricity supplier under article 7(2) and the date on which it was produced.3The Authority must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the specified day following an obligation period, notify the Northern Ireland authority of the number of UK ROCs produced to the Authority in respect of that period.4In this article, “ROC identifier” has the meaning given by paragraph 3 of Schedule 4.