The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Amendments to regulation 36B (ongoing obligation to use sustainable solid biomass or biogas or to produce sustainable biomethane)

6.—(1) In regulation 36B(3)(a) after “any” insert “biogas or”.

(2) In regulation 36B(3)(a)(i) after “Renewables Obligation Order 2009” insert “, the Renewables Obligation Order 2015(1)”.

(3) For regulation 36B(3)(a)(iii) substitute—

“(iii) where—

(aa) in the case of solid biomass used before 24th March 2016, information about that solid biomass is provided to the Authority(2) in accordance with article 54 of either the Renewables Obligation Order 2009(3) or the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009(4);

(bb) in the case of biogas or solid biomass used on or after 24th March 2016 in a generating station in Scotland, the biogas or solid biomass meets the greenhouse gas emission criteria in paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule A1A to the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009(5) and the relevant land criteria in Schedule A2 to that Order(6); or

(cc) in the case of biogas or solid biomass used on or after 24th March 2016 in a generating station in England or Wales, the biogas or solid biomass meets the greenhouse gas criteria in paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Renewables Obligation Order 2015 and the relevant land criteria in Schedule 3 to that Order; or”.

(1)

S.I. 2015/1947.

(2)

means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, as defined in section 100(3) of the Energy Act 2008 (c.32).

(3)

S.I. 2009/785; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2010/1107, 2011/984, 2013/768 and 2014/893.

(4)

S.S.I. 2009/140, as amended by S.S.I. 2009/276, S.S.I. 2010/147, S.S.I. 2011/225, S.S.I. 2011/226, S.S.I. 2013/116, S.S.I. 2014/94, S.S.I. 2015/188 and S.S.I. 2015/384.

(5)

Schedule A1A was inserted by S.S.I. 2015/384.

(6)

Schedule A2 was substituted by S.S.I. 2015/384.