{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015/schedule-6/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015/schedule-6/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1947",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Meaning of “exempt combustion unit”",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), a combustion unit of a relevant fossil fuel station is an “exempt combustion unit” for the purposes of this Schedule if it is a combustion unit in relation to which ROCs were issued in respect of electricity—\n(a) generated before 12th December 2014; and\n(b) described in Schedule 2 to the Renewables Obligation Order 2009 as “unit conversion” (including “unit conversion with CHP”) or “station conversion” (including “station conversion with CHP”).\n(2) The following are not “exempt combustion units”—\n(a) a combustion unit consisting entirely of generating capacity referred to in article 45(4)(a);\n(b) a combustion unit referred to in article 45(4)(d) or (e).\n(3) A combustion unit referred to in sub-paragraph (1) ceases to be an “exempt combustion unit” if, during any 6 month period since commencement day, it generates electricity from fossil fuel, where the energy content of the fossil fuel is more than 15% of the energy content of all of the energy sources used by the unit to generate electricity during that 6 month period.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (3), “fossil fuel” does not include fossil fuel for permitted ancillary purposes.",
  "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": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1947/schedule/6/paragraph/2",
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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."
}