Regulation 27 Carry forward of part of low-carbon heat target

(1)

This regulation applies to a scheme participant which has fewer certificates than it requires in order to meet its low-carbon heat target for a scheme year other than the 2028 scheme year, referred to in this regulation as the “carry forward scheme year”.

(2)

A scheme participant to which this regulation applies may carry forward some or all of the part of its low-carbon heat target which it is unable to meet, subject to the following provisions of this regulation.

(3)

For each carry forward scheme year, the amount of a scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target which may be carried forward may not exceed the greater of—

(a)

35% of the number of units in the scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target for the carry forward scheme year;

(b)

300, in the case of a scheme participant which was the supplier of 20,000 or more gas boilers which were the subject of a qualifying sale during the carry forward scheme year; or

(c)

50, in the case of a scheme participant which does not fall within sub-paragraph (b) but which was the supplier of 1,000 or more oil boilers which were the subject of a qualifying sale during the carry forward scheme year.

(4)

A scheme participant to which this regulation applies which does not wish to carry forward part of its low-carbon heat target in accordance with this regulation must notify the administrator of that wish no later than 1st October following the end of the carry forward scheme year.

(5)

Where a scheme participant to which this regulation applies does not make a notification in accordance with paragraph (4), the administrator must record in the registry the carry forward of part of the participant’s low-carbon heat target in accordance with this regulation.

(6)

The number of units in a part of a low-carbon heat target which is carried forward in accordance with this regulation is added to the scheme participant’s low-carbon heat target for the subsequent scheme year.

(7)

The number of units in a part of a low-carbon heat target which is carried forward from a scheme year in accordance with this regulation—

(a)

must be met by the scheme participant in accordance with regulation 25 (1) for the subsequent scheme year; and

(b)

is not taken into account when calculating the number of units which may be carried forward from that subsequent scheme year in accordance with paragraph (3)(a).

(8)

Paragraph (9) applies where—

(a)

a scheme participant carries forward part of its low-carbon heat target in accordance with this regulation; and

(b)

that scheme participant is not a scheme participant for the scheme year which follows the carry forward scheme year.

(9)

Where this paragraph applies, the undertaking or group of undertakings which was a scheme participant for the carry forward scheme year—

(a)

must, for the scheme year following the carry forward scheme year, meet the part of its low-carbon heat target which it carried forward; and

(b)

is treated as a scheme participant for the scheme year following the carry forward scheme year for that purpose, in addition, where applicable, to being a near-threshold supplier or a certificate holder.