The Green Gas Support Scheme Regulations 2021

Reporting obligations

65.—(1) The Authority must provide monthly reports to the Secretary of State, in such manner and form as the Secretary of State may request, containing the following information, as applicable—

(a) in respect of each participant registered as a producer of biomethane during the period covered by the report—

(i) the total amount of periodic support payments made to the participant,

(ii) the volume of biomethane produced for injection by the participant, and

(iii) sustainability information provided in accordance with regulation 12(6), (7) and (8),

(b) the names of any applicant, participant, or former participant requesting a review under regulation 62, and

(c) such other information as the Authority may hold in relation to its functions under these Regulations as the Secretary of State may require.

(2) Each monthly report must cover a calendar month and must be sent to the Secretary of State within seven working days of the end of that month.

(3) The Authority must publish—

(a) a quarterly report, in respect of each quarter, within one month of the end of the quarter, and

(b) an annual report, in respect of each scheme year, by 31st July following the end of the scheme year.

(4) Each annual report must contain current information relating to the scheme year covered by the report, and the period beginning with 30th November 2021 and ending with the start of that scheme year, as to—

(a) the number of participants,

(b) the volume of biomethane produced for injection by those participants, including any additional biomethane in respect of which those participants are registered,

(c) the total number and value of periodic support payments made in respect of that biomethane,

(d) the number of scheme suppliers and, of those, the number who are provisionally exempt scheme suppliers,

(e) the sum of the quarterly levy payments paid by those scheme suppliers, and

(f) the number of occurrences of—

(i) any scheme supplier failing to pay—

(aa) a quarterly levy payment,

(bb) a levy credit payment,

(cc) a payment of additional credit cover,

(dd) a mutualisation payment,

(ii) any scheme supplier making a payment mentioned in paragraph (i) after the due date, and the average number of days by which such payments were delayed, and

(iii) the Authority—

(aa) drawing down credit cover in accordance with regulation 55,

(bb) carrying out a mutualisation process.

(5) Each quarterly report must contain current information relating to the quarter covered by the report, and the period beginning with 30th November 2021 and ending with the start of that quarter, as to the matters referred to in paragraph (4)(a) to (e), and may contain such information as to the matters referred to in paragraph (4)(f).

(6) Any data which includes the meter point reference number of a customer of a scheme supplier or a former scheme supplier and which may be, or is required to be, reported or published by or under this regulation, must be reported or published (as the case may be) in anonymised form.

(7) In paragraph (6)—

(a) “anonymised form” means that the data is in a form calculated to prevent the data from being identified as relating to a particular person or property,

(b) “customer” in relation to a scheme supplier or a former scheme supplier, means a person who is or has been supplied with gas by that supplier.