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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracts-for-difference-allocation-regulations-2014/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111117316",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracts for Difference (Allocation) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracts-for-difference-allocation-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“accreditation” means accreditation under any of the renewables obligation orders;\n“the Act” means the Energy Act 2013;\n“additional qualification requirements” means the requirements set out in Chapter 4 of Part 4 applicable to particular applications;\n“administrative strike price” means the strike price—\n(a) used by the delivery body to value an application under regulation 29; and\n(b) which is the maximum strike price which applies to a successful application;\n“allocation process” means the process included in an allocation framework by which the delivery body determines which qualifying applications are successful applications and the strike price applicable to successful applications;\n“allocation round notice” has the meaning given by regulation 4;\n“appeals deadline date” has the meaning given by regulation 43(2)(c) and which date is listed in the allocation framework for an allocation round further to regulation 31(1)(b);\n“applicable planning consents” has the meaning given by regulation 24(1);\n“applicant” has the meaning given by regulation 16(2);\n“application” means (except in paragraph 4(b) of Schedule 1) a request by an applicant to the delivery body to take part in an allocation process in respect of a CFD unit;\n“application closing date” in relation to an allocation round has the meaning given by regulation 4(2)(b)(iii);\n“applications valuations” has the meaning given by regulation 29(1) and (2);\n“audit report” has the meaning given by regulation 36(2)(b);\n“budget notice” means a notice required by regulation 11;\n“budget revision notice” means a notice referred to in regulation 12(2)(b);\n“CFD unit” means the whole or part of an eligible generating station;\n“connection agreement” has the meaning given by regulation 25(6);\n“delivery body” means—\n(a) the national system operator; or\n(b) if the national system operator’s functions under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Act have been transferred to an alternative delivery body, that body;\n“delivery year” means any of—\n(a) the period from the date on which these Regulations come into force and ending on 31st March 2015; and\n(b) the 12 month periods commencing on 1st April 2015 and each anniversary of that date and ending with the 12 month period ending on 31st March 2020;\n“distribution system” has the meaning given by section 4(4) of the Electricity Act 1989;\n“excluded application” has the meaning given by regulation 14(1);\n“final strike price” means the strike price which applies to a successful application after the allocation process applicable to that application has been completed;\n“framework notice” has the meaning given by regulation 7(1);\n“framework revision notice” has the meaning given by regulation 8(4);\n“general qualification requirements” means the requirements set out in Chapter 3 of Part 4;\n“halt direction” has the meaning given by regulation 38(1)(a)(ii);\n“maxima” has the meaning given by regulation 11(2)(b);\n“minima” has the meaning given by regulation 11(2)(a);\n“non-fossil fuel orders” means—\n(a) the Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources)(England and Wales) Order 1994;\n(b) the Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources)(Scotland) Order 1994;\n(c) the Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources)(England and Wales) Order 1997;\n(d) the Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources)(Scotland) Order 1997;\n(e) the Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources)(England and Wales) Order 1998;\n(f) the Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources)(Scotland) Order 1999;\n“non-qualification determination” has the meaning given by regulation 19(2)(b);\n“non-qualification review” has the meaning given by regulation 20(1);\n“non-qualification review request date” has the meaning given by regulation 20(2)(a);\n“offshore waters” means waters—\n(a) in or adjacent to England, Wales or Scotland which are between the mean low water mark and the seaward limits of the territorial sea; or\n(b) within the area of the sea designated under section 41(3) of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009;\n“offshore wind CFD unit” means a CFD unit which generates electricity by the use of wind and which is situated (or is to be situated) wholly in offshore waters;\n“overall budget” means an amount set out in a budget notice, which is the total—\n(a) sum of money potentially payable by the CFD counterparty under CFDs to eligible generators in a delivery year;\n(b) capacity of electricity which may be generated by generating stations subject to a CFD in a delivery year; or\n(c) a combination of (a) and (b);\n“pending applicant” and “pending application” have the meanings given to those terms by regulation 49(2);\n“pending bid” has the meaning given by regulation 50(2)(b);\n“phased offshore wind CFD unit” means an offshore wind CFD unit—\n(a) which is to be established or altered by two or three phases of construction;\n(b) where each phase of construction is to provide new generating capacity; and\n(c) in the case of a CFD unit which is to be established, where each phase of construction is to provide a generating capacity of more than 5 megawatts;\n“post-appeals indicative start date” has the meaning given by regulation 31(2);\n“pot” has the meaning given by regulation 11(2)(c);\n“proceed direction” has the meaning given by regulation 38(1)(b)(i);\n“proceed notice” has the meaning given by regulation 37(1)(b)(i);\n“qualification appeal” has the meaning given by regulation 43(1);\n“qualifying applicant” has the meaning given by regulation 17(2) and includes a person determined by the appeals body as a qualifying applicant;\n“qualifying application” has the meaning given by regulation 17(2);\n“registration” means, other than in Schedule 1, registration on the central FIT register as an accredited FIT installation within the meaning of Part 3 of the Feed-in Tariffs Order 2012;\n“relevant CFD unit” means the CFD unit which is the subject of an application;\n“relevant works” has the meaning given by regulation 23(2) and (4);\n“renewables obligation orders” means—\n(a) the Renewables Obligation Order 2009; or\n(b) the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009;\n“re-run notice” has the meaning given by regulation 37(1)(b)(ii);\n“review notice” has the meaning given by regulation 20(1);\n“round variation notice” has the meaning given by regulation 5(1)(a);\n“strike price” means (except in Part 10) a price (“SP”) for one megawatt hour of electricity generated by a CFD unit;\n“successful application” means an application in respect of which, further to an allocation process, a CFD notification may be made or, in the case of an application in respect of a phased offshore wind CFD unit, more than one CFD notification may be made;\n“termination notice” has the meaning given by regulation 5(1)(b);\n“transmission system” has the meaning given by section 4(4) of the Electricity Act 1989;\n“variation notice” has the meaning given by regulation 34(2);\n“working day” means 9 am to 5 pm on Mondays to Fridays excluding—\n(a) bank holidays within the meaning of section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, including—\n(i) except in respect of Part 10, those bank holidays in part only of Great Britain;\n(ii) in respect of Part 10, those bank holidays in part only of the United Kingdom;\n(b) Good Friday; and\n(c) when it falls on a day that would otherwise be a working day, Christmas Day.\n(2) The following have the same meanings as they have in the Contracts for Difference (Definition of Eligible Generator) Regulations 2014—\n“biomass conversion station”;\n“complete CCS system”;\n“eligible generating station”;\n“eligible generator”;\n“generating station”;\n“hydro generating station”;\n“landfill gas”;\n“photovoltaic array”;\n“relevant fossil fuel generating station”;\n“sewage gas”.",
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  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The method of calculation, which uses the administrative strike price, is set out in the allocation framework for the allocation round, see regulation 29(3)(a)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 29. The definition of “transmission system” was inserted by section 135(1) and (4) of the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3259."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3275 (S. 190)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/248."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/799 (S. 76)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2353."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/439 (S. 24)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "2009 c. 23. By article 2 of the Exclusive Economic Zone Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3161), which came into force on 31st March 2014, an area of the sea outside territorial waters has been designated under this section."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/2782 as amended by S.I. 2013/1099."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/785 as amended by: S.I. 2010/829, 2010/1107, 2011/984, 2011/988, 2013/768."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2009/140 as amended by: S.S.I. 2009/276, 2010/147, 2011/225, 2013/116."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/xxxx."
    }
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