{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-scotland-order-2009/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-scotland-order-2009/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/140",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewables-obligation-scotland-order-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 its renewables obligation",
  "text": "(A1) This article applies in respect of an obligation period other than an obligation period in respect of which article 12A applies.\n(1) Subject to article 12B, 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 its renewables obligation in respect of electricity that it supplies to customers in Scotland during that period is, for each megawatt hour so supplied, the figure set out in the second column of Schedule 1 that corresponds to that period.\n(2) Subject to article 12B, 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 its renewables obligation in respect of electricity that it supplies to customers in Scotland during that period is, for each megawatt hour so supplied, equal to–\nfiguresetoutinsecondcolumnofSchedule1forthatperiod×calculation B for that periodcalculation A for that period\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The Scottish Ministers 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 it supplies to customers in Scotland during that period in order to discharge its renewables obligation for that period .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 12(A1) inserted (8.12.2017) by The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/432), arts. 1(1), 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(1) substituted (8.12.2017) by The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/432), arts. 1(1), 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(2) substituted (8.12.2017) by The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/432), arts. 1(1), 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 12(3) omitted (1.4.2010) by virtue of The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/147), arts. 1, 7 (with art. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See www.scotland.gov.uk/home for publication."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/140/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:02:05.855062+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."
}