Renewables Obligation meaning

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In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Chemicals Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings ESG and sustainability Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No 2) Order 2025 SI 2025/124: This instrument is introduced to revise one element of UK secondary legislation and two items of assimilated direct law concerning climate change. It separates the imminent 2026–30 allocation window into a single‑year allocation for the 2026 scheme year (the ‘2026 allocation period’) and a further four‑year allocation for the 2027–30 scheme years (the ‘2027–30 allocation period’). The measure is made under powers in the Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA 2008) in relation to assimilated law. It takes effect on 31 March 2025. See: LNB News 13/02/2025 9...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. How are contracts for difference (CfD) and the renewables obligation (RO) connected? The renewables obligation (RO) is designed to stimulate investment in renewable generation. It achieves this by placing a duty on customer-facing electricity suppliers—who obtain electricity from generators, whether directly or indirectly—to procure an ever-increasing share of their wholesale supply from renewable sources. The Secretary of State (SoS) for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) determines the proportion required each period. Suppliers prove compliance by submitting renewable obligation certificates (ROCs) to the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem). New ROCs are issued solely to accredited renewable generators, encouraging suppliers to purchase renewable output (together with separately priced ROCs) from such projects, thereby delivering a degree of financial support to those developments. For further details, see Practice Note: Renewables Obligation (RO)—accreditation of renewable electricity generators [Archived]. On 31 March 2017, the RO closed to most categories of new generation. The RO will continue to...

The RTFO The RTFO is one of the government’s principal policies to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fuels delivered for use in: road vehicles non-road transport, covering: non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) inland waterway vessels that do not normally operate at sea tractors recreational craft that do not normally operate at sea alternatively powered trains that do not already fall within the definition of NRMM (eg hydrogen fuel cell-powered trains) alternatively powered non-road vehicles that do not already fall within the definition of NRMM aircraft maritime, but only where the fuel used is a renewable fuel of non-biological origin (RFNBO) The RTFO represents one of several government measures that support the UK’s broader renewables and carbon reduction ambitions, including targets under the Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA 2008). It was introduced to comply with the EU Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC (RED) and via secondary legislation...

ARCHIVED This Practice Note is archived and no longer maintained. This Energy legislation tracker presents key forthcoming legislation of interest to Energy lawyers from 1 January 2017. The tracker is divided into the following jurisdictions: England and Wales European Union Entries appear in reverse chronological order. Items applying solely to Wales are flagged on the tracker. England and Wales Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/1075) Key date: 1 January 2018 Status: Comes into force; In force Topics: Nuclear licensing and regulation These Regulations establish a framework to ensure occupational exposure to ionising radiation is kept as low as reasonably practicable. They transpose the occupational elements of Directive 2013/59/Euratom, which sets basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from ionising radiations. The Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 are revoked. See: the occupational elements of Directive 2013/59/Euratom are transposed;...