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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-amendment-order-2025/article-14",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348272741",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2025",
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  "heading": "ECO4A scheme: methodology for scoring smart thermostats",
  "text": "(1) In the 2023 Order—\n(a) in article 32, after paragraph (5) insert—\n“(5A) This article is subject to article 32A.”;\n(b) after article 32 insert—\n“Methodology for scoring smart thermostats\n32A (1) This article applies to an ECO4A qualifying action for which—\n(a) there is no methodology for determining annual cost savings in the Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings (2012 Edition, version 9.92); and\n(b) there is a methodology for determining annual cost savings in the Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings (2023 Edition, version 10.2).\n(2) Before the end of the 6 week period beginning with the day on which the Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2025 comes into force, the Administrator must publish, on its website, a methodology for the purposes of determining the annual cost savings of the qualifying action.\n(3) The publication must state that the methodology has effect from 14th November 2024.\n(4) Before publishing a methodology under this article, the Administrator must have regard to the Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings (2023 Edition, version 10.2).\n(5) On or before 30th June 2026, the Administrator may revise any methodology published under this article by publishing the revised methodology on its website.”.\n(2) The methodology published by the Administrator in accordance with Article 32A(2) of the 2023 Order applies in relation to a measure which is the subject of the methodology where the installation is or was completed on or after 14th November 2024.",
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      "text": "Published by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Group. A copy can be accessed at https://bregroup.com/expertise/energy/sap/standard-assessment-procedure-2012. A copy can be inspected by contacting the Energy Company Obligation Team at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 55 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2EG."
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      "text": "Published by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Group. A copy can be accessed at https://bregroup.com/sap/sap10/. A copy can be inspected by contacting the Energy Company Obligation Team at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 55 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2EG."
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      "text": "[SI registration number to be inserted in due course]."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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