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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/188",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the 2001 Order” means the Electricity and Gas (Energy Efficiency Obligations) Order 2001;\n“the 2004 Order” means the Electricity and Gas (Energy Efficiency Obligations) Order 2004;\n“carbon emissions reduction obligation” means the reduction in carbon emissions a supplier must achieve in the obligation period;\n“cogeneration” means the simultaneous generation in one process of thermal energy and—\n(a)electrical energy;\n(b)mechanical energy; or\n(c)both electrical and mechanical energy;\n...\n“domestic customer” means an owner or occupier of domestic premises in Great Britain who is supplied with electricity or gas at those premises wholly or mainly for domestic purposes;\n“domestic energy user” means a person who uses energy in domestic premises in Great Britain wholly or mainly for domestic purposes;\n“energy” means energy from coal, electricity, gas, geothermal sources, liquid petroleum gas, oil, solar power, water, wind or wood;\n“energy assessor” means a person with any of the following qualifications—\n(a)City and Guilds (6176) in Energy Awareness;\n(b)Level 3 of the National Vocational Qualification 6049-03 (Provide Energy Efficiency Services);\n(c)a qualification based on units one to five of the National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Home and Community Energy Advisers which qualification is awarded by a body which has been approved and quality assured by the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator; or\n(d)an equivalent qualification that is recognised by a member State of the European Union, an EEA State or Turkey;\n“group of companies” means—\n(a)a holding company; and\n(b)the wholly-owned subsidiaries of that holding company;\n“holding company” has the same meaning as in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985;\n“home energy advice package” has the meaning given in Schedule A1;\n“householder” has the meaning given by Schedule 1;\n“insulation obligation” means the amount of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation which is to be achieved by the promotion of measures in accordance with article 9(1A);\n“lifetime tonnes of carbon dioxide” means the amount of carbon dioxide that is expected to be saved over the lifetime of the measures to be promoted under this Order;\n“loft insulation plus” means—\n(a)the provision to a domestic energy user of loft insulation which adds to existing loft insulation which is at least 60mm in depth and where that additional insulation is installed by a person with appropriate experience or qualifications; or\n(b)the promotion of loft insulation through a retail outlet,\nwhere the provision or promotion, as applicable, takes place between 11th September 2008 and 31st July 2009;\n...\n“micro-cogeneration unit” means a cogeneration unit with a maximum capacity below 50 kWe;\n“new supplier” has the meaning given by article 4(5);\n“notification” means notification in writing and includes notification by electronic mail or facsimile;\n“obligation period” has the meaning given by article 6(3) or 6(4);\n“overall carbon emissions reduction target” means the target for the promotion of a reduction in carbon emissions stated in article 3(1) and referred to in section 103 of the Utilities Act 2000;\n“overall insulation target” has the meaning given by article 3(1)(a);\n“overall super priority group target” has the meaning given by article 3(1)(b);\n“priority group” means the group of domestic energy users where each member—\n(a)is in receipt of at least one of the benefits described in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2;\n(b)is in receipt of at least one of the credits described in paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 and has a relevant income of £16,190 or less (where “relevant income” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Tax Credits Act 2002); or\n(c)is at least 70 years old;\n“professionally installed” means installed by a person, other than the householder, who has appropriate experience or qualifications;\n“qualifying component” means—\n(a)child tax credit which includes a disability or severe disability element;\n(b)a disabled child premium;\n(c)a disability premium, enhanced disability premium or severe disability premium;\n(d)a pensioner premium, higher pensioner premium or enhanced pensioner premium;\n“real-time display” means a device which, together with a transmitter used in connection with it, provides information relating to—\n(a)a domestic energy user’s electricity consumption; and\n(b)the cost of that consumption,\nand does so at the time the consumption occurs;\n“short-life battery” means a battery which is not expected to power—\n(a)a real-time display; or\n(b)a transmitter used in connection with such a display,\nfor more than one year under normal conditions of use;\n“subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 736 of the Companies Act 1985;\n“super priority group” means the group of domestic energy users in the priority group where each member is in receipt of—\n(a)child tax credit and has a relevant income below £16,190 (where “relevant income” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Tax Credits Act 2002);\n(b)income-related employment and support allowance, which must include a work-related activity or support component, and—\n(i)has parental responsibility for a child under the age of five who ordinarily resides with that member; or\n(ii)is in receipt of a qualifying component;\n(c)income-based job seeker’s allowance and—\n(i)has parental responsibility for a child under the age of five who ordinarily resides with that member; or\n(ii)is in receipt of a qualifying component;\n(d)income support and—\n(i)has parental responsibility for a child under the age of five who ordinarily resides with that member; or\n(ii)is in receipt of a qualifying component;\nor\n(e)state pension credit;\n“super priority group obligation” means the amount of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation which is to be achieved by the promotion of measures in accordance with article 13A;\n“supplier” has the meaning given by article 4;\n“U value” means the measure in W/m2K of heat transmission through a wall.\n(2) In this Order, subject to article 10, a qualifying action means—\n(a) a demonstration action;\n(b) a market transformation action;\n(c) subject to article 14, a priority group flexibility action; or\n(d) a standard action.\n(3) In this Order—\n(a) a demonstration action is an action which is reasonably expected to achieve a reduction in carbon emissions;\n(b) a market transformation action means—\n(i) between 1st April 2008 and 31st March 2011 the provision of microgeneration units where such provision will achieve a reduction in carbon emissions;\n(ii) the provision of solid wall insulation where such provision will achieve a reduction in carbon emissions;\n(iii) the provision of a real-time display;\n(iv) the provision of a home energy advice package;\n(v) between 1st April 2008 and 31st March 2011 the provision of any other action which will achieve a reduction in carbon emissions but which the Authority did not determine to be a qualifying action under the 2001 Order; or\n(vi) on and from 1st April 2011 the provision of any other action which will achieve a reduction in carbon emissions but which the Authority did not determine to be a qualifying action under the 2004 Order;\n(c) a priority group flexibility action means the provision to a householder within paragraph (a) or (b) of the priority group—\n(i) between 1st April 2008 and 31st March 2011 of ground source heat pumps in respect of a property which does not have a mains gas supply; or\n(ii) of solid wall insulation which lowers the U-value of the walls to 0.5 W/m2K or less;\n(d) a standard action means an action which—\n(i) will achieve a reduction in carbon emissions; or\n(ii) is the provision of a real-time display or a home energy advice package.\n(4) Paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) revoked (21.7.2009) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1904), arts. 1, 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) inserted (21.7.2009) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1904), arts. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) inserted (31.7.2010) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1958), arts. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sum in Art. 2 substituted (31.7.2010) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1958), arts. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 2(3)(b)(c) substituted (31.7.2010) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1958), arts. 1, 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 2(3)(d) substituted (21.7.2009) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1904), arts. 1, 3(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 31.1.2008, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/4011, as amended by S.I. 2003/1180."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/3392."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Cogeneration is also commonly referred to as combined heat and power in the United Kingdom."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1985 c.6. Sections 736 and 736A were substituted for the original section by section 144(1) of the Companies Act 1989 (c.40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2002 c.21."
    }
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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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