Regulation 19 Requirement to provide collateral

This regulation applies at all times after an electricity supplier makes an electricity supply in a quarterly obligation period in respect of which it is required to make an interim rate payment.

Where this regulation applies the supplier must ensure that, on any day, the CFD counterparty holds sufficient collateral from the supplier to meet the supplier's collateral requirement for that day.

The supplier's collateral requirement for a day (“the relevant day”) is determined by reference to the most recent period (“the relevant period”) of 21 consecutive days in respect of which the BSCCo had carried out a BSC volume allocation run prior to the last working day before the relevant day.

For each day in the relevant period, the amount of electricity supplied by the supplier on that day, less any amount of EII excluded electricity supplied by that supplier on that day, (both as determined on the last working day before the relevant day) multiplied by the interim levy rate which applies in relation to the relevant day gives a relevant amount.

The sum of the relevant amounts is the supplier's collateral requirement for the relevant day.

The supplier is not to be treated as having breached its obligation under paragraph (2) where, after the first occasion on which it provided sufficient collateral to the CFD counterparty to meet its collateral requirement for a day—

Collateral may be provided in the form of—

For the purposes of this regulation—

In this regulation “appropriate letter of credit” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 20(1).