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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348264845",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024",
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  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under section 6 of the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32), which enables the Secretary of State, for the purpose of encouraging low carbon electricity generation, to make regulations about “contracts for difference” (defined in section 6(2) of the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32)) between a “CFD counterparty” (which is a person designated under section 7 of that Act) and an “eligible generator” (defined in the Contracts for Difference (Eligible Generator) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2010) (“Eligible Generator Regulations”)).\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations amends the Eligible Generator Regulations so that a person who alters an “eligible generating station” (defined in regulation 3(5) of the Eligible Generator Regulations) by decommissioning part of it in order to replace that part is an eligible generator.\nParagraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 3 of these Regulations amend the Contracts for Difference (Allocation) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2011) (“Allocation Regulations”), so that an “application” involving the alteration of a “CFD unit” (both defined in regulation 2(1) of the Allocation Regulations) by decommissioning part of it and replacing that part is not “an excluded application” (i.e. an application which an eligible generator may not make under Part 4 of the Allocation Regulations).\nRegulation 3(4) of these Regulations amends the Allocation Regulations so that it is no longer an additional qualification requirement that an application in respect of a “floating offshore wind CFD unit” is not a “phased offshore wind CFD unit” (respectively defined in regulations 27ZA(2) and 2(1) of the Allocation Regulations).\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of the business, voluntary and public sector is available from the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero, 3-8 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HH, and is available alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
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