62 Obligation in connection with electricity from renewable sources
Utilities Act 2000 (2000 c 27) | Legislation

Electricity from renewable sources

62  Obligation in connection with electricity from renewable sources

For section 32 of the 1989 Act there is substituted—

“32 Obligation in connection with electricity from renewable sources

(1)     The Secretary of State may by order impose on each electricity supplier falling within a specified description (a “designated electricity supplier”) an obligation to do what is set out in subsection (3) (and that obligation is referred to in this section and sections 32A to 32C as the “renewables obligation”).

(2)     The descriptions of electricity supplier upon which an order may impose the renewables obligation are those supplying electricity—

(a)     in Great Britain;

(b)     in England and Wales; or

(c)     in Scotland,

excluding

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