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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-industrial-emissions-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/schedule-13A/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/160",
  "legislation_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-industrial-emissions-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "schedule/13A/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“economically justified demand” means demand that does not exceed the needs for heating or cooling and which would otherwise be satisfied at market conditions by energy generation processes other than cogeneration;\n“electricity from cogeneration” means electricity generated in a process linked to the production of useful heat and calculated in accordance with the methodology laid down in Annex II of the Energy Efficiency Directive;\n“substantial refurbishment” means a refurbishment whose cost exceeds 50% of the investment cost for a new comparable unit, but the fitting of equipment to carry out the activity falling within head (a) of Part A of section 6.10 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 shall not be considered as refurbishment for the purposes of paragraphs 4, 7 and 10 of this Schedule; and\n“unit” means any boilers, furnaces, kilns, turbines or engines forming part of an installation which added together have a rated thermal input of more than 20 megawatts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 13A inserted (10.12.2014) by The Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/304), reg. 1, Sch."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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