{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-capacity-regulations-2014/regulation-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-capacity-regulations-2014/regulation-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111116852",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Capacity Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-capacity-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/50",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Reducing capacity payments: failure to demonstrate satisfactory performance",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in relation to a capacity committed CMU (“CMU i”) and a delivery year (“year X”) if—\n(a) a satisfactory performance requirement applies in respect of CMU i in year X; and\n(b) the requirement has not been met by 30th April in year X.\n(2) If, by the end of a relevant month, the capacity provider in respect of CMU i (“C”) has not complied with the satisfactory performance requirement, no monthly capacity payment is to be paid in respect of CMU i for that month.\n(3) If C complies with the satisfactory performance requirement during a relevant month, the Settlement Body must ensure that the credit which would otherwise be payable to C in respect of the monthly capacity payment for CMU i for that month is reduced by the proportion A B , where—\n(a) A is the number of days in the relevant month before the day on which C complies with the satisfactory performance requirement; and\n(b) B is the number of days in the relevant month.\n(4) If C has not complied with the satisfactory performance requirement by the end of year X—\n(a) C must repay to the Settlement Body all capacity payments made in respect of CMU i and year X; and\n(b) the Settlement Body must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of year X, issue an invoice to C for the amount of those capacity payments.\n(5) The Settlement Body must—\n(a) if paragraph (2) applies, give a notice to C which states that no monthly capacity payment is to be paid in respect of CMU i for the relevant month, and states the reason;\n(b) if paragraph (3) applies, ensure that the credit note issued to C for the relevant month states the amount by which the credit is reduced, and states the reason;\n(c) if paragraph (4) applies, ensure that the invoice issued to C under paragraph (4)(b) states the reason for the issue of the invoice.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“relevant month” means May, June, July, August or September in year X;\n“satisfactory performance day” has the meaning given in the Rules;\n“satisfactory performance requirement” means a requirement in capacity market rules for a capacity provider to demonstrate satisfactory performance days in respect of a capacity committed CMU.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111116852/regulation/50",
    "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."
}