The NFFO legislation refers to PESs. However, the Director General of Electricity Supply (DGES) has chosen to place the obligation on PESs which are also RECs. Therefore, there are other PESs which are not RECs which are not obliged to buy nuclear or renewable electricity.
2.
The NFPA is an accounting body wholly owned by the 12 RECs.
3.
DTI, 1996, Renewable Interest in Renewables, Press Release, 7 March.
4.
OFFER, 1991, Levy Rate to Remain at 11%, Press Release, 16 December; OFFER, 1992, Fossil Fuel Levy Falls to 10% for 1993–4, Press Release, 8 December; OFFER, 1993, Levy Remains at 10%, Press Release, 16 December.
For the arguments for and against such decisions, see MitchellC (1995) Support for Renewable Energy in the UK – Options for the Future, produced for and available from the Council for the Protection of Rural England, London, UK.
7.
DNC = Declared Net Capacity which is the equivalent capacity of base load plant that would produce the same average output.
8.
MurphyL., 1996, The Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation and Renewable Energy, paper to Altener Seminar on Market Incentives to Renewables, Lisbon, Portugal, 708 March.
9.
MitchellC., 1996, Renewable Energy – Policy and Costs, paper given to the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG), Monday 19 February, Table A12.
10.
LittlechildS., 1995, Renewable Energy and Price Convergence, paper given to PRASEG, 6 November.
11.
MitchellC. (1995) Support for Renewable Energy in the UK – Options for the Future, produced for and available from the Council for the Protection of Rural England, London, UK; MitchellC, 1995, The Renewable NFFO – A Review, Energy Policy, December.
12.
OFFER, 1994, Third Renewables Order for England and Wales, November.
13.
ETSU, 1994, An Assessment of Renewable Energy for the UK, HMSO, UK.
14.
LittlechildS., 1995, Renewable Energy and Price Convergence, paper give to PRASEG, 6 November.
15.
DTI, 1996, Renewable Interest in Renewables, Press Release, 7 March.
16.
see Wind Energy, 1994, House of Commons Welsh Affairs Select Committee Report, 3 Vols, 13 July, HMSO.
17.
DTI, 1994, New and Renewable Energy: Future Prospects in the UK, March, page A3.
18.
Depending on whether the 1994 DUKES figure for total electricity supplied (303, 741 GWh) or total sales of electricity (282,764 GWh) is used and excluding large hydro generation.
19.
MitchellC., 1996, A Survey of European Renewable Energy Support Mechanisms, DOE/EPRI Green Pricing Workshop, 11–12 April, Denver, Colorado, USA.
20.
OFFER, 1994, Third Renewables Order for England and Wales, November.
