{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-43",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111113936",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Additional capacity for biomethane production",
  "text": "After regulation 43 insert—\n“Additional capacity for biomethane production\n43A. (1) A participant who is—\n(a) a producer of biomethane;\n(b) whose original application for registration was made on or after the third relevant date; and\n(c) who is producing additional biomethane for injection,\nmay apply to the Authority to be registered in respect of that additional biomethane.\n(2) Regulation 23 and paragraphs (2) to (3) and (4) to (8) of regulation 25 apply to an application for registration in respect of additional biomethane as they do to an application for registration under that regulation.\n(3) Where a participant is registered in respect of additional biomethane, the Authority must specify the maximum additional capacity in relation to which the participant is being registered.\n(4) Periodic support payments for additional biomethane may not be made beyond the tariff end date notified in accordance with regulation 25(4)(d) when the participant was originally registered as a producer of biomethane.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation,\n(a) “additional biomethane” means any biomethane—\n(i) which exceeds the sum of the maximum initial capacity, together with any maximum additional capacity previously specified under this regulation; and\n(ii) is being supplied by the participant for injection at the same injection point as the biomethane in respect of which that participant was first registered.\n(b) “maximum additional capacity” means the volume of biomethane expressed in cubic metres per quarterly period which—\n(i) is additional biomethane; and\n(ii) is the maximum volume which a participant is entitled to supply for injection under the Network Entry Agreement applicable to that additional biomethane.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111113936/regulation/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:13:20.185651+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."
}