Article 45 Provisions of information to the Authority
The Authority may, be the date (if any) specified by it, require—
a designated electricity supplier to provide it with information which in its opinion is relevant to the question whether the supplier is discharging, or has discharged, his renewables obligation;
a person to provide it with information which in its opinion is relevant to the question whether a NIROC is, or was or will in future be, required to be issued to the person.
Without prejudice to paragraph (1), the Authority may, by the date (if any) specified by it, require any person who—
is the operator of a generating station generating electricity in respect of which a NIROC has been or may be issued;
supplies, distributes or transmits such electricity; or
buys or sells (as a trader) such electricity or NIROCs,
to provide it with such information as in its opinion it requires in order to carry out any of its functions under this Order.
Without prejudice to paragraphs (1) and (2), for the purposes of determining the renewable output of a generating station in a month (“the relevant month”) the operator of the station must provide the Authority with figures showing—
the amount of input electricity used by the station in the relevant month, and
the gross output of the station in that month,
by the end of the second month following the relevant month (and those figures may be estimated if the Authority has agreed to estimates being provided and to the way in which those estimates are to be calculated).
Nothing in paragraph (3) prevents the Authority from accepting figures, or further figures, provided after the end of the second month following the relevant month if the Authority considers it appropriate to do so.
Without prejudice to paragraphs (1) and (2), each designated electricity supplier must provide the Authority with—
estimates of the amount of electricity he has supplied to customers in Northern Ireland during each month of an obligation period by no later than 1st June following that period;
figures showing the amount of electricity he has actually supplied to customers in Northern Ireland during each month of an obligation period by no later than 1st July following that period; and
an estimate of the number of renewables obligation certificates he believes he would be required to produce to the Authority in order to discharge his renewables obligation for an obligation period if he did not discharge his renewables obligation for that period (in whole or in part) by some other means by no later than 1st July following that period.
When giving the information referred to in paragraph (5)(a) and (b), a designated electricity supplier must have regard to any sales figures relating to the electricity in respect of which he is giving that information which he has provided (or intends to provide) to the Department of Energy and Climate Change for publication in “Energy Trends”.
Without prejudice to paragraphs (1) and (2), for the purposes of determining whether a NIROC certifying the matters within Article 54(4) or (6) of the Energy Order should be issued the person to whom any such NIROC would be issued must provide the Authority with—
a figure representing the amount of electricity in respect of which NIROCs should (in that person’s opinion) be issued; and
the data on which that person relied in arriving at that figure.
Where a designated electricity supplier receives a payment other than under Article 42(4) or 43(4)(a) in relation to a failure by a Great Britain designated electricity supplier to discharge its renewables obligation imposed in accordance with section 32(1) of the Electricity Act, the designated electricity supplier receiving the payment shall notify the Authority, immediately after receiving the payment, of the amount he received and the reason for the payment.
Information requested under or required to be provided by this Article must be given to the Authority in whatever form it requires.
In this Article “input electricity” and “gross output”, in relation to a generating station, have the same meaning as they have in Articles 22 and 23 (calculating a generating station’s renewable output).