Regulation 3 Amendments to the Climate Change Levy (General) Regulations 2001

In Schedule 3 (fuels referable to the production of electricity in a combined heat and power station)—

(a)

in paragraph 1—

(i)

after “CHP Scheme” omit “and”; and

(ii)

after “CHP Total Fuel Input” insert “and “CHP Total Power Output””;

(b)

in paragraph 2(2)—

(i)

for the formula substitute the following formula—

(T F I - \frac{Q H O}{η h, r e f}) x (1 - \frac{M O}{T P O})

(ii)

after the definition of $η h, r e f$ insert—

“MO is Mechanical Output, which is the amount of power in megawatt-hours (electrical) (MWhe) generated by the station in a given annual operation that is used to drive a mechanical load (such as a pump, fan or compressor) through direct coupling, without the use of electricity.

TPO is the CHP Total Power Output for the station on the current CHPQA certificate relating to the station at the time the quantity of the carbon price support rate commodity is brought onto, or arrives at, the CHPQA site.”;

(c)

in paragraph 4(1) and (2), for “and the CHP Qualifying Heat Output” substitute “, the CHP Qualifying Heat Output, the Mechanical Output and the CHP Total Power Output”;

(d)

in paragraph 5(b), for “and CHP Qualifying Heat Output” substitute “, CHP Qualifying Heat Output, Mechanical Output and CHP Total Power Output”.