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Banding the Renewables Obligation (RO)

This consultation ran from 23 May 2007 to 6 September 2007.

In the 2006 Energy Review Report the Government announced a number of proposals for changes to the Renewables Obligation. These changes would provide differentiated support levels to different renewables technologies and give additional certainty on long-term Renewable Obligation Certificate prices. These changes to the RO will require new primary legislation and so will not be introduced until April 2009 at the earliest.

On 9 October 2006 the Government published an initial consultation document: Reform of the Renewables Obligation & Statutory Consultation on the Renewables Obligation Order 2007 on these proposals. This closed on 5 January 2007.

This latest consultation document published on 23 May 2007 sets out in more detail the proposals to reform the RO.

To inform this consultation document the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI,now BERR) commissioned work on a number of aspects of these proposals. Copies of these reports are available below:

• Renewable energy: reform of the renewables obligation (239KB)
  URN 07/636
• Impact of banding the renewables obligation: costs of electricity production (513KB)
  URN 07/948
• Reform of the renewables obligation. What is the likely impact of changes? (716KB)
  URN 07/949

The Government response to the consultation was published on 10 January 2008 and is available below:

• Renewables obligation consultation: Government response (183KB)
  URN 08/531
• Renewables obligation consultation: updated modelling for Government response (129KB)