Article 19 Accreditation of extensions to installations which are not accredited FIT installations

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

Paragraph (2) applies where—

(a)

the Authority receives notice that an installation which uses an eligible low-carbon energy source (“the existing installation”) has been extended; and

(b)

either—

(i)

a request for accreditation of the existing installation as an accredited FIT installation has been refused; or

(ii)

if a request were made for accreditation of the existing installation, the request would be refusedF1; and

(c)

the commissioning date of the extension is before 15th January 2016.

(2)

Where this paragraph applies, the Authority must—

(a)

treat the extension as a separate eligible installation;

(b)

decide whether or not to accredit the extension in accordance with Part 3; and

(c)

where it decides to accredit the extension, assign the extension a tariff code based on the aggregate total installed capacity of both the extension and the existing installation.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Art. 19(1)(c) and word inserted (15.1.2016) by The Feed-in Tariffs (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2045), arts. 1, 15 (with art. 24)