- AD
means electricity generated from gas formed by the anaerobic digestion of material which is neither sewage nor material in a landfill;
- advanced gasification
means electricity generated from a gaseous fuel which is produced from waste or biomass by means of gasification, and has a gross calorific value when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the generating station of at least 4 megajoules per metre cubed;
- advanced pyrolysis
means electricity generated from a liquid or gaseous fuel which is produced from waste or biomass by means of pyrolysis, and (a) in the case of a gaseous fuel, has a gross calorific value when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the generating station of at least 4 megajoules per metre cubed, and (b) in the case of a liquid fuel, has a gross calorific value when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the generating station of at least 10 megajoules per kilogram;
- anaerobic digestion
means the bacterial fermentation of organic material in the absence of free oxygen;
- banding provision
means a provision of articles 27 to 31.
- Banking day
means a day on which banks are generally open in the City of London excluding Saturdays and Sundays.
- biomass
means fuel used in a generating station where—
- buy-out fund
means the fund held by the Authority on the 1st September of the settlement period, being the aggregate of— (a) amounts received by the Authority under article 43 (those amounts relating to the renewables obligation in the relevant period);
- CHPQA
means the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance Standard, Issue 3, January 2009, as published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Guidance Note 44 (Use of CHPQA to obtain Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs) Including Under a Banded Obligation (expected to apply from April 2009)), published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change;
- co-firing of biomass
means electricity generated from regular biomass in a month in which the generating station generates electricity partly from fossil fuel and partly from renewable sources;
- co-firing of biomass with CHP
means electricity generated from regular biomass by a qualifying combined heat and power generating station in a month in which it generates electricity partly from fossil fuel and partly from renewable sources, and where the fossil fuel and regular biomass have been burned in separate boilers or engines;
- co-firing of energy crops
means electricity generated from energy crops in a month in which the generating station generates electricity partly from fossil fuel and partly from renewable sources;
- co-firing of energy crops with CHP
means electricity generated from energy crops by a qualifying combined heat and power generating station in a month in which it generates electricity partly from fossil fuel and partly from renewable sources, and where the fossil fuel and energy crops have been burned in separate boilers or engines;
- combined heat and power generating station
means a station which generates electricity and is (or may be) operated for purposes including the supply to any premises of— (a) heat produced in association with electricity;
- compliant United Kingdom supplier
means a United Kingdom supplier which, at the end of the late payment period, has discharged or is treated as if it had discharged in full every UK renewables obligation imposed on it in respect of the relevant period;
- dedicated biomass
means electricity generated from regular biomass in a month in which the generating station generates electricity only from regular biomass or only from biomass;
- dedicated energy crops
means electricity generated from energy crops in a month in which the generating station generates electricity only from energy crops or only from biomass;
- electricity generated from landfill gas
means electricity generated from gas formed by the digestion of material in a landfill;
- electricity generated from sewage gas
means electricity generated from gas formed by the anaerobic digestion of sewage (including sewage which has been treated or processed);
- electricity interconnector
means so much of an electric line or other electric plant as subsists wholly or primarily for the purposes of the conveyance of electricity between a transmission or distribution system in Great Britain and an equivalent system in another country (including Northern Ireland);
- energy crops
means a plant crop planted after 31st December 1989 which is grown primarily for the purpose of being used as fuel or which is one of the following— (a) miscanthus giganteus (a perennial grass);
- energy from waste with CHP
means electricity generated from the combustion of waste (other than a fuel produced by means of anaerobic digestion, gasification or pyrolysis) in a qualifying combined heat and power generating station in a month in which the station generates electricity only from renewable sources and those renewable sources include waste which is not biomass;
- environmental quality assurance scheme
means a voluntary scheme which establishes environmental or social standards in relation to the production of biomass or matter from which a biomass fuel is derived.
- excepted generating station
means a generating station— (a) which was accredited on or before 31st March 2011;
- gasification
means the substoichiometric oxidation or steam reformation of a substance to produce a gaseous mixture containing two or all of the following: oxides of carbon, methane and hydrogen;
- geopressure
means electricity generated using naturally occurring subterranean pressure;
- geothermal
means electricity generated using naturally occurring subterranean heat;
- hazardous waste
means any waste which is hazardous waste as defined by Article 1(4) of the Hazardous Waste Directive;
- Hazardous Waste Directive
means Council Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste, as amended by Council Directive 94/31/EC;
- hydro generating station
means a generating station driven by water (other than a generating station driven by tidal flows, waves, ocean currents or geothermal sources) and includes all turbines supplied with water by or from the same civil works, except any turbine driven by a compensation flow supplied by or from those civil works in a natural water course where there is a statutory obligation to maintain that compensation flow in that water course (in which case that turbine and associated infrastructure is to be regarded as a separate hydro generating station);
- hydroelectric
means electricity generated by a hydro generating station;
- in writing
includes the provision of such information by electronic mail, facsimile or similar means which are capable of producing a document containing the text of any communication.
- input electricity
has the same meaning as in article 24;
- landfill
has the meaning given in Article 2(g) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC;
- landfill gas
means gas formed by the digestion of material in a landfill;
- large hydro generating station
means a hydro generating station which has, or has had at any time since 1st April 2002, a declared net capacity of more than 20 megawatts;
- late payment period
means the period beginning on the 1st September and concluding on the 31st October in the settlement period;
- micro hydro generating station
means a hydro generating station which— (a) has a declared net capacity of 1.25 megawatts or less;
- microgenerator
means a generating station which has a declared net capacity of 50 kilowatts or less;
- mixed gas
means gas formed by the anaerobic digestion of sewage together with— (a) waste which constitutes a renewable source (other than sewage), or (b) biomass (other than sewage).
- mutualisation fund
means the aggregate at any given time of the amounts (excluding any amounts repaid under article 51(2)) received by the Authority under articles 49 and 51 (together with any interest earnt on those amounts) in relation to the relevant period;
- mutualisation period
means the obligation period immediately following the settlement period;
- nominated person
has the same meaning as it has in the Electricity from Non-Fossil Fuel Sources Saving Arrangements Order 2000 or in the Electricity from Non-Fossil Fuels Sources (Scotland) Saving Arrangements Order 2005 (as the case may be);
- non-compliant United Kingdom supplier
means a United Kingdom supplier which, at the end of the late payment period, has not discharged or is not treated as if it had discharged in full every UK renewables obligation imposed on it in respect of the relevant period;
- Non-Fossil Fuel Order
means any of the following Orders: the Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources) (England and Wales) Order 1994;
- Northern Ireland
has the same meaning as in Article 54(1) of the Northern Ireland Energy Order.
- Northern Ireland certificate
means a renewables obligation certificate issued by the Northern Ireland authority under the Northern Ireland Energy Order and pursuant to a NIRO Order;
- Northern Ireland Energy Order
means the Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;
- obligation period
means any of the periods referred to in the first column of Schedule 1;
- offshore waters
means— (a) waters in or adjacent to the United Kingdom which are between the mean low water mark and the seaward limits of the territorial sea, and (b) waters within an area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964;
- offshore wind
means electricity generated from wind by a generating station that is offshore, and a generating station is offshore if— (a) its turbines are situated wholly in offshore waters, and (b) it is not connected to dry land by means of a permanent structure which provides access to land above the mean low water mark;
- onshore wind
means electricity generated from wind by a generating station that is not offshore;
- pyrolysis
means the thermal degradation of a substance in the absence of any oxidising agent (other than that which forms part of the substance itself) to produce char and one or both of gas and liquid;
- qualifying combined heat and power generating station
means a combined heat and power generating station which has been accredited under the CHPQA;
- Register
has the meaning given to it in article 59(1);
- registered holder
has the meaning given to it in paragraph 3 of Schedule 4;
- regular biomass
means biomass other than— (a) sewage gas, (b) landfill gas, (c) energy crops, (d) fuel produced by means of anaerobic digestion, gasification or pyrolysis;
- relevant supplier
means an electricity supplier which was a designated electricity supplier in the relevant period and which at the end of the late payment period had discharged or is treated as if it had discharged the whole or part of its renewables obligation for the relevant period;
- renewable electricity
means electricity which is generated from renewable sources and in respect of which renewables obligation certificates may be issued.
- renewable sources
includes waste of which not more than 90 per cent is waste which is, or is derived from, fossil fuel.
- renewables obligation
has the meaning given to it in article 5(1);
- renewables obligation certificate
means— (a) a renewables obligation certificate issued by the Authority under this Order;
- Respiratory Index
means the rate of oxygen uptake expressed in milligrams of oxygen per kilogram of volatile solids per hour;
- retail prices index
means— (a) the general index of retail prices (for all items) published by the Office of National Statistics;
- ROC
means a renewables obligation certificate issued by the Authority under this Order;
- Scotland
includes— (a) so much of the internal waters and territorial sea of the United Kingdom as are adjacent to Scotland;
- sewage gas
means gas formed by the anaerobic digestion of sewage (including sewage which has been treated or processed);
- solar photovoltaic
means electricity generated from the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity;
- Solid Recovered Fuel
means solid fuel which— (a) complies with the classification and specification requirements in CEN/TS 15359:2006, (b) is prepared from a waste which is not a hazardous waste, (c) has a maximum Respiratory Index value of no more than 1500 milligrams of oxygen per kilogram of volatile solids per hour when measured using the real dynamic respiration test specified in CEN/TS 15590:2007, and (d) when subject to a methodology for the determination of particle size in accordance with CEN/TS 15415:2006, is able to pass through an opening measuring no more than 150 millimetres in all dimensions;
- standard gasification
means electricity generated from a gaseous fuel which is produced from waste or biomass by means of gasification, and has a gross calorific value when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the generating station which is at least 2 megajoules per metre cubed but is less than 4 megajoules per metre cubed;
- standard pyrolysis
means electricity generated from a gaseous fuel which is produced from waste or biomass by means of pyrolysis, and has a gross calorific value when measured at 25 degrees Celsius and 0.1 megapascals at the inlet to the generating station which is at least 2 megajoules per metre cubed but is less than 4 megajoules per metre cubed;
- standby generation
means the generation of electricity by equipment which is not used frequently or regularly to generate electricity and where all the electricity generated by that equipment is used by the generating station.
- the Act
means the Electricity Act 1989;
- tidal impoundment – tidal barrage
means electricity generated by a generating station driven by the release of water impounded behind a barrier using the difference in tidal levels where the barrier is connected to both banks of a river and the generating station has a declared net capacity of less than 1 gigawatt;
- tidal impoundment – tidal lagoon
means electricity generated by a generating station driven by the release of water impounded behind a barrier using the difference in tidal levels where the barrier is not a tidal barrage and the generating station has a declared net capacity of less than 1 gigawatt;
- tidal stream
means electricity generated from the capture of the energy created from the motion of naturally occurring tidal currents in water;
- total ROC claim
means the total number of ROCs which have been claimed in respect of an obligation period, less—
- total UK buy-out fund
means the fund existing on the 1st September of the settlement period, being the aggregate of— (a) the buy-out fund held on that date;
- transmission or distribution system
means a transmission or distribution system within the meaning of Part 1 of the Act or an equivalent system in Northern Ireland;
- United Kingdom supplier
means— (a) a designated electricity supplier;
- volatile solids
means any mass loss, corrected for moisture, when a solid is heated out of contact with air under the specified conditions and using the methods in CEN/TS 15402:2006;
- waste
has the meaning given to it in section 75(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 but does not include gas derived from landfill sites or gas produced from the treatment of sewage.
- waste collection authority
has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
- wave
means electricity generated from the capture of the energy created from the motion of naturally occurring waves on water.