{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015/schedule-6/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1947",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule (including the modifications to this Order set out in paragraphs 8 to 18)—\n“2018/19 obligation period” means the obligation period starting on 1st April 2018;\n“capped combustion unit” means a combustion unit of a relevant fossil fuel station other than any of the following—\n(a)an exempt combustion unit;\n(b)a combustion unit consisting entirely of generating capacity referred to in article 45(4)(a);\n(c)a combustion unit referred to in article 45(4)(d) or (e);\n“capped generating station” means a relevant fossil fuel station that includes at least one capped combustion unit and no exempt combustion units;\n“commencement day” means the day on which the Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2018 comes into force;\n“exempt combustion unit” is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 2;\n“mixed generating station” means a relevant fossil fuel station that includes at least one capped combustion unit and at least one exempt combustion unit;\n“qualification day” means—\n(a)in the 2018/19 obligation period, the later of 1st September 2018 and commencement day;\n(b)in any subsequent obligation period, 1st September;\n“relevant day” means the first day of the second month after the month in which the Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2018 comes into force;\n“relevant electricity” means—\n(a)electricity to which article 36 applies;\n(b)electricity generated in any of the ways described in Schedule 5 as—\n(i)“co-firing of regular bioliquid” (including “co-firing of regular bioliquid with CHP”);\n(ii)“high-range co-firing” (including “high-range co-firing with CHP”);\n(iii)“low-range co-firing” (including “low-range co-firing with CHP”);\n(iv)“mid-range co-firing” (including “mid-range co-firing with CHP”);\n(v)“station conversion” (including “station conversion with CHP”); or\n(vi)“unit conversion” (including “unit conversion with CHP”);\n“relevant fossil fuel station” has the meaning given in Schedule 5, but does not include—\n(a)a generating station in relation to which ROCs have been issued in respect of electricity—\n(i)generated before the date on which the generating station became a “relevant fossil fuel station” (as defined in Schedule 5); and\n(ii)described as “dedicated biomass” (including “dedicated biomass with CHP”) in Schedule 2 to the Renewables Obligation Order 2009 or Schedule 5; or\n(b)a microgenerator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 inserted (20.7.2018) by The Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/896), arts. 1(1), 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1947/schedule/6/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}