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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-amendment-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348272741",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-amendment-order-2025",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/875), which establishes a scheme referred to as the “ECO4 scheme”, and the Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/873), which establishes a scheme referred to as the “ECO4A scheme”.\nArticles 4 to 7 make changes to both the ECO4 and ECO4A schemes relating to—\nthe definition of “rural area”;\ninstallation standards: referrals by TrustMark or another person;\nadvice given on the benefits of smart meters;\nreassignment of savings under the ECO4 scheme to the ECO4A scheme.\nArticles 8 to 11 make changes to the ECO4 scheme relating to—\nupdated Publicly Available Specifications 2030 and 2035 standards;\nthe scheme off-gas hierarchy as it relates to improvement options evaluation reports;\ninnovation measures as they relate to shared ground loops;\nscheme installation standards as they relate to building repair fabric.\nArticles 12 to 14 make changes to the ECO4A scheme relating to—\nthe scoring of savings over 25% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation;\nthe maximum number of insulation measures per property;\nmethodology for scoring.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the public sector has been published and is available at www.legislation.gov.uk. Hard copies of the impact assessment can be obtained from the Energy Company Obligation Team, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 55 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HP.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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