Explanatory note

This Order imposes on public electricity suppliers in England and Wales an obligation to make arrangements to secure the availability during specified periods of specified aggregate amounts of generating capacity from non-fossil fuel generating stations. The arrangements must be made, and evidence of their making must be produced to the Director General of Electricity Supply, before 1st April 1990.

Article 2 requires that the capacity come from nuclear generating stations. Article 3 imposes the obligation and introduces Schedule 1 in which are specified, in relation to each public electricity supplier, the periods and amounts of capacity whose availability is to be secured. The amounts are specified in megawatts (one megawatt equals one million watts). Article 4 provides a mechanism whereby, if certain conditions are not satisfied (see Schedule 2) or if certain events occur (see Schedule 3), the Order is to have effect as if the relevant period specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 were replaced by a different period and, as a consequence of that, as if the relevant amount of capacity specified in column 3 of Schedule 1 were a reduced amount, the amount of the reduction being the amount of capacity which has ceased to be available by reason of (as the case may be) the condition not having been satisfied or the event having occurred.