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Section 32: The renewables obligation

Electricity Act 1989 · 1989 c. 29View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

The relevant minister may make a renewables obligation order.

"The relevant minister" means—

in the case of Scotland, the Scottish Ministers,
in any other case, the Secretary of State.

In subsection (2) "Scotland" includes—

so much of the internal waters and territorial sea of the United Kingdom as are adjacent to Scotland, and
a Renewable Energy Zone, or any part of such a Zone, which is designated by order under section 84(5) of the Energy Act 2004 (areas in relation to which Scottish Ministers have functions).

A renewables obligation order is an order which imposes the renewables obligation on each electricity supplier falling within a specified description (a "designated electricity supplier").

The descriptions of electricity supplier upon which a renewables obligation order may impose the renewables obligation are those supplying electricity to customers in the relevant part of Great Britain, excluding such categories of supplier (if any) as are specified.

The renewables obligation is that the designated electricity supplier must, by each specified day, have produced to the Authority the required number of renewables obligation certificates in respect of the amount of electricity supplied by it during a specified period to customers in the relevant part of Great Britain.

Subsection (6) is subject to sections 32A to 32M.

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