Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111516393/body
Timestamp: 2019-07-24 07:49:04
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Matched Legal Cases: ['ART 2', 'ART 3', 'ART 5', 'ART 6', 'art 3', 'art 7', 'art 7', 'ART 9', 'ART 10', 'ART 11']

PART 2Eligibility and matters relating to eligibility
CHAPTER 2Eligibility criteria for technologies
5. This regulation applies if the plant complies with all of the following requirements—
(a)it generates heat from solid biomass;
(b)the heat from the solid biomass is generated using equipment specifically designed and installed to use solid biomass as its only primary fuel source;
(c)in the case of a plant with an installation capacity of 45kWth or less, regulation 13 applies.
Eligible installations generating heat using solar collectors
7. This regulation applies if the plant complies with all of the following requirements—
(a)it generates heat using a solar collector;
Eligible installations generating heat using heat pumps
8. This regulation applies if the plant is a heat pump and complies with all of the following requirements—
(a)it generates heat using naturally occurring energy stored in the form of heat from one of the following sources of energy—
(i)the ground other than naturally occurring energy located and extracted from at least 500 metres below the surface of solid earth;
(ii)surface water;
(b)in the case of a heat pump with an installation capacity of 45kWth or less, regulation 13 applies;
(c)it has a coefficient of performance of at least 2.9.
Eligible installations which are CHP systems
9.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation applies if the plant is a CHP system which complies with one of the following requirements—
(a)it generates heat and electricity from solid biomass and either regulation 6 applies or the plant complies with the requirement in regulation 5(b);
(b)it generates heat and electricity from biogas and complies with regulation 11(b) and (c);
(c)it generates heat and electricity utilising naturally occurring energy located and extracted from at least 500 metres beneath the surface of solid earth.
(2) This regulation does not apply if the plant—
(a)uses solid biomass to generate heat and electricity;
(b)is accredited under the Renewables Obligation Order 2009(7) or the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009(8); and
(c)is, or at any time since it was accredited in accordance with sub-paragraph (b), has been a qualifying CHP generating station within the meaning of article 2 of either of those Orders.
Eligible installations generating heat using geothermal sources
10. This regulation applies if the plant generates heat using naturally occurring energy located and extracted from at least 500 metres beneath the surface of solid earth.
12.—(1) The requirements referred to in regulation 4(b) are—
(a)installation of the plant was completed and the plant was first commissioned on or after 15th July 2009;
(b)the plant was new at the time of installation;
(c)the plant uses liquid or steam as a medium for delivering heat to the space, water or process;
(d)heat generated by the plant is used for an eligible purpose.
(2) The requirements of paragraph (1)(a) and (b) are deemed to be satisfied where the plant was previously generating electricity only, using solid biomass or biogas, and was first commissioned as a CHP system on or after 15th July 2009.
MCS certification for microgeneration heating equipment
13. This regulation applies where the plant for which accreditation is being sought is certified under the MCS and its installer was certified under the MCS at the time of installation.
Plants comprised of more than one plant
14.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), and without prejudice to regulation 43(5)(b), the eligibility criteria are not met if the plant is comprised of more than one plant.
(2) Where two or more plants—
(a)use the same source of energy and technology,
(b)form part of the same heating system, and
(c)are not accredited RHI installations,
those plants (the “component plants”) are to be regarded as a single plant for the purposes of paragraph (1) provided that paragraph (3) applies.
(3) This paragraph applies where each component plant meets the eligibility criteria; and for that purpose a component plant can be taken to meet the eligibility criteria notwithstanding that regulation 13 does not apply.
CHAPTER 3Eligibility criteria in relation to metering and steam measuring
Metering of plants in simple systems
18.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the heat generated by the plant must be individually metered.
Metering of CHP systems generating electricity only before 15th July 2009
19.—(1) This regulation applies where the plant is a CHP system and the requirements of regulation 12(1)(a) and (b) are deemed to be satisfied in accordance with regulation 12(2).
(3) For the purpose of this regulation, “the CHPQA” means the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance Standard, Issue 3, January 2009, as published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change(9).
21.—(1) This regulation sets out additional requirements in relation to metering where a plant is generating heat from biogas.
PART 3Accreditation and registration
22.—(1) An owner of an eligible installation may apply for that installation to be accredited.
(c)a declaration that the applicant is the owner, or one of the owners, of the eligible installation for which accreditation is being sought.
(3) The Authority may, where an eligible installation is owned by more than one person, require that—
(4) Before accrediting an eligible installation, the Authority may arrange for a site inspection to be carried out in order to satisfy itself that a plant should be accredited.
(5) The Authority may, in granting accreditation, attach such conditions as it considers to be appropriate.
(6) Where an application for accreditation has, in the Authority’s opinion, been properly made in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) and the Authority is satisfied that the plant is an eligible installation the Authority must (subject to regulation 23 and regulation 47(3))—
(b)notify the applicant in writing that the application has been successful;
(e)in relation to an applicant who is or will be generating heat from solid biomass, having regard to the information provided by the applicant, specify by notice to the applicant which of regulation 28, 29 or 30 applies;
(ii)the applicable tariff;
(iv)details of the frequency and timetable for payments; and
(7) Where the Authority does not accredit a plant it must notify the applicant in writing that the application for accreditation has been rejected, giving reasons.
(8) Once a specification made in accordance with paragraph (6)(e) has been notified to an applicant, it cannot be changed except where the Authority considers that an error has been made or on the receipt of new information by the Authority which demonstrates that the specification should be changed.
Exceptions to duty to accredit
23.—(1) The Authority must not accredit an eligible installation unless the applicant has given notice (which the Authority has no reason to believe is incorrect) that, as applicable—
(a)no grant from public funds has been paid or will be paid in respect of any of the costs of purchasing or installing the eligible installation; or
(b)such a grant was paid in respect of an eligible installation which was completed and first commissioned between 15th July 2009 and the date on which these Regulations come into force, and has been repaid to the person or authority who made it.
(2) In this regulation, “grant from public funds” means a grant made by a public authority or by any person distributing funds on behalf of a public authority.
(3) The Authority must not accredit an eligible installation if it has not been commissioned.
(4) The Authority may refuse to accredit an eligible installation if its owner has indicated that one of the applicable ongoing obligations will not be complied with.
(5) The Authority may refuse to accredit a plant which is a component plant within the meaning of regulation 14(2).
26.—(1) The Authority may, upon the application by a person who proposes to construct or operate an eligible installation which has not yet been commissioned, grant preliminary accreditation in respect of that eligible installation provided—
(b)such planning permission is not required and appropriate evidence of this is provided to the Authority from the relevant planning authority.
(2) The Authority must not grant preliminary accreditation to any plant under this regulation if, in its opinion, that plant is unlikely to generate heat for which periodic support payments may be paid.
(3) An application for preliminary accreditation must be in writing and supported by such of the information specified in Schedule 1 as the Authority may require.
(4) The Authority may attach such conditions as it considers appropriate in granting preliminary accreditation under this regulation.
(5) Where a plant has been granted preliminary accreditation (and such preliminary accreditation has not been withdrawn) and an application for accreditation is made under this Part, the Authority must, subject to regulation 23, grant that application unless it is satisfied that—
(6) Where any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (7) apply in relation to a preliminary accreditation which the Authority has granted and having regard to those circumstances the Authority considers it appropriate to do so, the Authority may—
(7) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (6) are as follows—
(d)there has been change in the applicable legislation since the preliminary accreditation was granted such that, had the application for preliminary accreditation been made after the change, it would have been refused.
(8) The Authority must send the applicant a notice setting out—
(b)any condition attached to the preliminary accreditation or any amendment to those conditions.
(9) The notice sent pursuant to paragraph (8) must specify the date on which the grant or withdrawal of preliminary accreditation is to take effect and, where applicable, the date on which any conditions (or amendments to those conditions) attached to the preliminary accreditation are to take effect.
(10) In paragraph (1), the reference to the person who proposes to construct an eligible installation includes a person who arranges for the construction of the eligible installation.
(11) This regulation does not apply to a plant which will generate heat using—
(b)a heat pump which complies with the requirements of regulation 8(a); or
(c)solid biomass, provided that the plant will have an installation capacity below 200kWth.
“allocating authority” has the same meaning as in section 24 of the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003(10);
“energy content” means the energy contained within a substance (whether measured by a calorimeter or determined in some other way) expressed in terms of the substance’s gross calorific value within the meaning of British Standard BS 7420:1991 (Guide for determination of calorific values of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels (including definitions) published by the British Standards Institute on 28th June 1991(11));
“waste” has the same meaning as in section 75(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(12);
“waste collection authority” has the same meaning as in section 30(3) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(13);
“waste disposal authority” has the same meaning as in section 30(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(14).
PART 5Periodic support payments
Periodic support payments accredited RHI installations for complex systems
39.—(1) This regulation applies to participants who own an accredited RHI installation (“the installation”) which does not fall within regulation 38.
(a)A x B x ; or
(b)where the accredited RHI installation is generating heat from the combustion of biogas,
A x (B - C) x ,
B is the heat in kWhth used by the heating system of which the installation forms part during the relevant quarterly period for eligible purposes;
C is the heat in kWhth directed from the installation or delivered from any other source to the biogas production plant which produced the biogas combusted in the relevant quarterly period (other than heat contained in feedstock to produce biogas by anaerobic digestion) or, where there is no such heat, zero;
D is the heat in kWhth generated by the installation during the relevant quarterly period; and
E is the heat in kWhth generated by all plants supplying heat to the same heating system of which the installation forms part in the relevant quarterly period.
41.—(1) This regulation applies to participants producing biogas from gasification or pyrolysis and generating heat from that biogas in an accredited RHI installation.
(2) Where, in accordance with regulation 31, a participant uses feedstock contaminated with fossil fuel, the periodic support payment calculated in accordance with regulation 38 or 39 shall be reduced pro rata to reflect the proportion of fossil fuel contamination in the feedstock used by the participant in the relevant quarterly period.
Periodic support payments to producers of biomethane
42. Participants producing biomethane for injection shall be paid a periodic support payment in respect of each quarterly period calculated in accordance with the following formula—
A x (B – (C + D + E)) x F,
A is the biomethane and biogas combustion tariff determined in accordance with regulation 37;
B is the kWh of biomethane injected in any quarterly period;
C is the kWh of propane contained in B;
D is the kWhth of heat supplied to the biogas production plant (other than heat contained in feedstock to produce biogas by anaerobic digestion) which produced the biogas from which the biomethane was made, from any heat source other than heat generated from the combustion of that biogas;
E is the kWhth of heat supplied to the biomethane production process; and
F applies only in relation to biomethane made using biogas produced from gasification or pyrolysis, and is the proportion of biomass contained in the feedstock used in the relevant quarterly period to produce the biogas.
PART 6Additional RHI capacity
Treatment of additional RHI capacity
43.—(1) This regulation applies where a participant installs additional RHI capacity.
(2) In this regulation “additional RHI capacity” means a plant which is—
(a)first commissioned after the date on which an accredited RHI installation (“the original installation”) was first commissioned;
(c)supplies heat to the same heating system as that of which the original installation forms part.
(3) A participant must inform the Authority within 28 days of the additional RHI capacity being first commissioned.
(4) Paragraph (5) applies where the additional RHI capacity is first commissioned within 12 months of the date on which the original installation was first commissioned.
(a)the Authority may review the accreditation of any accredited RHI installation using the same source of energy and technology and supplying heat to the same heating system as the additional RHI capacity;
(b)upon an application for accreditation of the additional RHI capacity, the Authority must—
(i)treat the additional RHI capacity as if it were part of the original installation, and
(ii)decide whether or not to accredit the additional RHI capacity and original installation as one eligible installation in accordance with Part 3;
(c)subject to sub-paragraph (d), a refusal of accreditation under sub-paragraph (b)(ii) does not affect the accreditation of the original installation;
(d)if a review undertaken in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) results in a finding that a relevant ongoing obligation is no longer being complied with, the Authority may take appropriate action under Part 7; and
(e)where the Authority grants accreditation in accordance with sub-paragraph (b), from the date of that accreditation a participant’s periodic support payments in respect of the original installation will be replaced by periodic support payments calculated using the applicable tariff determined in accordance with paragraphs (7) and (9) of regulation 37 in relation to the source of energy and technology concerned based on the sum of the installation capacities of the additional RHI capacity and the original installation, and will terminate with the tariff end date of the original accredited RHI installation.
(6) Paragraph (7) applies where the additional RHI capacity is first commissioned more than 12 months after the original installation was first commissioned.
(7) Where this paragraph applies, the Authority may review the accreditation of any accredited RHI installation using the same source of energy and technology and supplying heat to the same heating system as the additional RHI capacity; and if a review results in a finding that a relevant ongoing obligation is no longer being complied with, the Authority may take appropriate action under Part 7.
(8) All additional RHI capacity must be individually metered.
PART 9Inspection
Power to inspect accredited RHI installations
50.—(1) The Authority or its authorised agent may request entry at any reasonable hour to inspect an accredited RHI installation and its associated infrastructure to undertake any one or more of the following—
(b)the consequences of the refusal, including potential sanctions for failing to comply with the ongoing obligation imposed by regulation 34(i); and
(c)details of the participant’s right of review including any relevant time-limits.
PART 10Reviews
51.—(1) Any prospective, current or former participant affected by a decision made by the Authority in exercise of its functions under these Regulations (other than a decision made in accordance with this regulation) may have that decision reviewed by the Authority.
(4) On review the Authority may—
(5) Within 21 days of the Authority’s decision on a review, it must send the applicant and any other person who is in the Authority’s opinion affected by its decision a notice setting out its decision with reasons.
PART 11Administrative Functions of the Authority and notices
52. The Authority must publish procedural guidance to participants and prospective participants in connection with the administration of the scheme.
54. On request from the Secretary of State, the Authority must provide to the Secretary of State in such manner and form and by such date as the Secretary of State may request such additional information as the Authority may hold in relation to the performance of its functions under these Regulations.
55. A notice under these Regulations—