Sentence examples for obligations certificates from inspiring English sources

Around 40% of the revenue for the fund will come from the electricity produced by the solar panels and sold into the national grid, while the other 60% will come from payments linked to "Renewable Obligations Certificates" – green certificates used by electricity suppliers to demonstrate they have met their obligations to generate power from renewable resources.

The need to conform to ever more stringent emissions legislation, reduced levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), and the recently introduced Renewables Obligations Certificates (ROCs) means that conventional power stations are having to change their operating philosophy and encompass new technologies and operating techniques.

Incentivising DEC production via eligibility for energy subsidy payments (e.g. Renewable Obligations Certificates [ROC]) would improve the relative profitability of DEC in comparison to the current financial returns.

In order to reduce this, Decc will stop issuing renewable obligation certificates to large-scale solar projects after March next year.

DECC wants to end Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCS), from which ground mounted solar currently benefits, prematurely, in March 2015.

Around £525m is to be pumped into the sector between 2011 and 2014 through the government temporarily raising subsidies for offshore wind projects from a current Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROC) banding level of 1.5 to 2.0.

Indeed, the next wave of UK policy uncertainty is imminent, with the roll-out of competition-based "Contracts for Difference" (the replacement for Renewables Obligation Certificates), expected in October.

Meanwhile costs of renewable technologies have gone down, performance has improved, plus incentives and funding structures such as feed in tariffs (FITs), Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) and Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) have come in.

Solar arrays below 5MW (bigger solar farms had their support cut in April) will no longer receive renewable obligation certificates (ROCs) which force energy companies to buy from them at a set price.

But the subsidy system, under which wind farms sell renewable obligation certificates (ROCs) to conventional generators, rewards onshore and offshore farms equally, and building on land is less risky or costly than building at sea, where special barges costing £30m each are needed to manoeuvre the turbines into position.

Current policies are designed primarily to support large-scale renewable projects through Renewable Obligation Certificates, Levy Exemption Certificates and capital grant schemes.