Article 10 Further provision in relation to production of ROCs and NIROCs

(1)

A designated electricity supplier may discharge up to 25 per cent of its renewables obligation in respect of an obligation period by producing to the Authority certificates issued by the Authority under section 32B of the Act and eligible NIROCs relating to electricity supplied in the immediately preceding obligation period.

(2)

In respect of any obligation period which falls –

(a)

within the period from 1st April 2005 up to and including 31st March 2006, no more than 25 per cent;

(b)

within the period from 1st April 2006 up to and including 31st March 2011, no more than 10 per cent; and

(c)

within the period from 1st April 2011 up to and including 31st March 2016, no more than 5 per cent

of a designated electricity supplier’s renewables obligation may be satisfied by the production of certificates issued by the Authority under section 32B of the Act and eligible NIROCs issued in respect of generating stations which during the month to which a ROC or NIROC relates, have been fuelled partly by fossil fuel (as defined in article 11) and partly by biomass (and by no other fuel)

(3)

A designated electricity supplier shall not produce to the Authority a certificate issued under section 32B of the Act or a NIROC which has previously been or simultaneously is produced to the Northern Ireland Authority under a NIRO Order.