{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-northern-ireland-2009/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-northern-ireland-2009/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation Order (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-order-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Determining the number of renewables obligation certificates to be produced by a designated electricity supplier in order to discharge his renewables obligation",
  "text": "(1) Where the total obligation for an obligation period is calculation A, the number of renewables obligation certificates that a designated electricity supplier is required to produce in order to discharge his renewables obligation in respect of electricity that he supplies to customers in Northern Ireland during that period is, for each megawatt hour so supplied, the figure set out in the third column of Schedule 1 that corresponds to that period.\n(2) Where the total obligation for an obligation period is calculation B, the number of renewables obligation certificates that a designated electricity supplier is required to produce in order to discharge his renewables obligation in respect of electricity that he supplies to customers in Northern Ireland during that period is, for each megawatt hour so supplied, equal to—\nFigure set out in third column of Schedule 1 for that period×calculation B for that periodcalculation A for that period\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The Department must publish, by the 1st October preceding an obligation period, the number of renewables obligation certificates that a designated electricity supplier is required to produce in respect of each megawatt hour of electricity that he supplies to customers in Northern Ireland during that period in order to discharge his renewables obligation for that period.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 12(3) omitted (1.4.2010) by virtue of The Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/134), arts. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 1.4.2009, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/154/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:32:05.419651+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."
}