{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015/article-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015/article-51.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1947",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015",
  "path": "article/51",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Generating stations supported or potentially eligible for support under a feed-in tariff scheme",
  "text": "(1) ROCs are not to be issued in respect of any electricity generated by a microgenerator if that microgenerator—\n(a) is a hydro generating station, or\n(b) generates electricity from—\n(i) gas formed by the anaerobic digestion of material which is neither sewage nor material in a landfill,\n(ii) the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity, or\n(iii) wind.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), ROCs are not to be issued in respect of any electricity generated by a generating station—\n(a) if support has been given under a feed-in tariff scheme for the generation of electricity by the station, or\n(b) if, before the application for accreditation of the station was determined, the Authority was notified in writing by a relevant person that support for electricity generated by the station should be given in the form of financial incentives under a feed-in tariff scheme.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not prevent the issue of ROCs in respect of electricity generated by a generating station if financial incentives are not available under a feed-in tariff scheme for that electricity by virtue of the size of the station's total installed capacity.\n(4) In this article—\n“relevant person”, in relation to a generating station, means—\n(a)the operator of the station, or\n(b)a person who is entitled to receive financial incentives under a feed-in tariff scheme in respect of that station.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1947/article/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:01.885287+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}