{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-capacity-regulations-2014/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-capacity-regulations-2014/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111116852",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Capacity Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-capacity-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Excluded capacity: NER 300 and CCS grant scheme CMUs",
  "text": "(1) The Delivery Body must not prequalify a CMU (“CMU i”) unless the applicant has provided to it, by the close of the prequalification window, a declaration in writing that no relevant grant has been, or will be, paid in respect of CMU i.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“relevant grant” means a grant under a relevant scheme, the first payment of which is made, or to be made, within the period of 10 years immediately before the commencement of the delivery period; and\n“relevant scheme” means a scheme of financial assistance provided under—\n(a) NER 300;\n(b) section 1(1) of the Energy Act 2010 in respect of a CCS demonstration project within the meaning of that section; or\n(c) section 5(1) of the Science and Technology Act 1965 to support carbon capture and storage.\n(3) In paragraph (2), “NER 300” means the competition established under Article 10a(8) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 c.27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1965 c.4. Section 5(1) has been amended by S.I. 1971/719, S.I. 1992/1296, S.I. 1995/2785 and S.I. 1995/2985. Other amendments have been made to section 5 which are not relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p.32. Aspects of NER 300 are implemented by Commission Decision 2010/670/EU (OJ L 290, 6.11.2010, p.39). Those projects which have received a grant under NER 300 can be examined at: www.ec.europa.eu/clima/funding/ner300/index_en.htm."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111116852/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:43.570912+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}