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Electricity licence exemptions

This series brings together all documents relating to Electricity licence exemptions

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From:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published:
29 July 2013
Last updated:
16 September 2025
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  1. Published Electricity transmission license exemption: Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm.

  2. Added a link to Electricity licence exemption: Riverside Energy Park Limited.

  3. Published electricity supply licence exemption: JG Pears Power Limited.

  4. Added Electricity transmission licence exemptions for Seagreen Wind Energy Limited and Dogger Bank A.

  5. Added Electricity transmission license exemption: Spiorad na Mara wind farm array systems.

  6. Added Electricity supply licence exemption: Green Volt Offshore Wind Farm.

  7. Added Electricity generation licence exemption: Slough Multifuel Generating Station.

  8. Added Electricity transmission licence exemption: Moray offshore windfarm (East).

  9. Added proposed electricity transmission licence exemption for Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm Limited.

  10. Creag Riabhach Wind Farm and Sandy Knowe Wind Farm exemption added

  11. Added proposed exemption: Electricity transmission licence exemption: East Anglia One Limited.

  12. Kype Muir Extension Windfarm exemption added.

  13. Added electricity licence exemption: E.ON UK CHP Limited at the Port of Liverpool.

  14. Added Electricity generation licence exemption: Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant Ltd and Rookery South Ltd.

  15. Latest exemptions added.

  16. Electricity licence exemption for Frodsham onshore wind farm.

  17. First published.

Exemption limits are given in the Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 2001. This rules that operators need to determine if they meet the Order’s requirements to qualify for an exemption.

The Electricity Act also allows the Secretary of State to make certain new generation plants (above 50MW) exempt even if they do not qualify for class exemption,

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