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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewables-obligation-order-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111138359",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-renewables-obligation-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“actual value method” means the calculation method for greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of bioliquids provided for in paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 to 18 of Part C of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive;\n“default percentage” means—\n(a) in relation to bioliquid described in the first column of Part A or Part B of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive—\n(i) the percentage (if any) which corresponds to that description in the third column of Part A or Part B of that Annex, or\n(ii) where a percentage corresponding to that description is not set out in the third column of Part A or Part B of that Annex, the percentage which complies with the provision corresponding to that description in the second column of Part A or Part B of that Annex,\n(b) in all other cases 0%;\n“disaggregated default value” means, in relation to a bioliquid described in the first column of a table in Part D or Part E of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive, the value which corresponds to that description in the third column of that table in Part D or Part E of that Annex;\n“disaggregated default values for cultivation” means the figures in the third column of the table entitled “Disaggregated default values for cultivation: ‘eec’ as defined in part C of this Annex” in Part D of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive;\n“greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuel” means the value given in paragraph 19 of Part C of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive as the fossil fuel comparator for bioliquids used for electricity production;\n“mixed value method” means the calculation method for greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of bioliquids provided for in paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 to 18 of Part C of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive, but using one or more disaggregated default values for the bioliquid when carrying out the calculation set out in paragraph 1 of Part C of that Annex; and\n“relevant percentage” means—\n(a) in relation to bioliquid used to generate electricity before 1st January 2017, 35%;\n(b) in relation to bioliquid used to generate electricity during 2017, 50%;\n(c) in relation to bioliquid produced by an installation that started producing bioliquid before 1st January 2017 and used to generate electricity on or after 1st January 2018, 50%;\n(d) in all other cases, 60%.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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