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Offshore Renewable Energy Bill

Decommissioning of ORE infrastructure - Decommissioning obligation - Who has decommissioning obligation

71: Owners have decommissioning obligation for ORE transmission infrastructure

You could also call this:

"Owners must dismantle and dispose of old offshore renewable energy equipment"

Illustration for Offshore Renewable Energy Bill

If you own infrastructure that helps send offshore renewable energy to the grid, you have to take it apart and get rid of it when it's no longer needed. You also have to pay for this process. If you stop owning this infrastructure, you still have to make sure it gets taken apart and disposed of properly. This rule is connected to another part of the proposed law, which you can find in section 72.

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Part 3Decommissioning of ORE infrastructure
Decommissioning obligation: Who has decommissioning obligation

71Owners have decommissioning obligation for ORE transmission infrastructure

  1. A person who owns ORE transmission infrastructure must carry out, and meet the costs of, the decommissioning of all of that ORE transmission infrastructure.

  2. A person’s decommissioning obligation continues in force even if the relevant person ceases to own the infrastructure.

  3. This section is subject to section 72.