The Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance (Temporary Modifications) Regulations 2021

Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under section 32L(2) of the Electricity Act 1989 and section 62(3) of the Energy Act 2013, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Draft Statutory Instruments

2021 No. ***

Energy

The Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance (Temporary Modifications) Regulations 2021

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Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

Citation, commencement, application and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance (Temporary Modifications) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made, but if they are made before 18th May 2021, they come into force on 18th May 2021.

(3) Any modification made by these Regulations has the same application and extent as the provision modified.

Modification of the Emissions Performance Standard Regulations 2015

2.—(1) The Emissions Performance Standard Regulations 2015(3) are modified as follows.

(2) Regulation 2 (interpretation) is to be read, for the 12-month period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force, as if for the definition of “CHPQA standard” there were substituted—

“CHPQA standard” means the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance Standard, Issue 8, March 2021;(4).

Modification of the Renewables Obligation Order 2015

3.—(1) The Renewables Obligation Order 2015(5) is modified as follows.

(2) Article 2(1) (interpretation) is to be read, for the 12-month period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force, as if for the definition of “CHPQA” there were substituted—

“CHPQA” means the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance Standard, Issue 8, March 2021 and Guidance Note 44 (Use of CHPQA in respect of the Renewables Obligation and Contracts for Difference), Issue 7, December 2018;.

Name

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Date

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations modify, for the 12-month period beginning with the day on which they come into force, the Emissions Performance Standard Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/933) and the Renewables Obligation Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1947). The purpose of the modifications is to update, for the period of 12 months beginning with the date on which these Regulations come into force, the definition of the Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance Standard to refer to issue 8 of that Standard, which is available together with its accompanying guidance notes at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chpqa-standardor in hard copy upon request from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument since the modifications made by it will remain in force for no more than 12 months.

(1)

1989 c. 29; section 32 was substituted by section 37 of the Energy Act 2008 (c. 32), and amended by S.I. 2014/631.

(3)

S.I. 2015/933 as amended by S.I. 2016/1108; there are other amendments to those Regulations but none is relevant.

(4)

The Standard and its accompanying guidance notes are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chpqa-standardor in hard copy upon request from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET.

(5)

S.I. 2015/1947 as amended by S.I. 2016/1108; there are other amendments to that Order but none is relevant.