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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008/article-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Achievement of carbon emissions reduction obligations",
  "text": "(1) A supplier must achieve its carbon emissions reduction obligation by promoting qualifying actions to domestic energy users.\n(1A) A supplier must achieve its insulation obligation by promoting on or after 1st August 2010—\n(a) cavity wall insulation;\n(b) flat roof insulation;\n(c) loft insulation;\n(d) solid wall insulation; or\n(e) under floor insulation,\nwhich is professionally installed.\n(2) A qualifying action must be approved by the Authority.\n(3) A supplier must achieve its carbon emissions reduction obligation without exceeding any of the following limits—\n(a) no more than Y% minus X% of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation may be achieved by—\n(i) a market transformation action;\n(ii) a demonstration action; or\n(iii) both such actions;\n(b) no more than 2% of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation may be achieved by the provision of—\n(i) a real-time display;\n(ii) a home energy advice package; or\n(iii) both.\n(4) In paragraph (3)(a)—\n“Y%” means—\n(a)10%; but\n(b)12% where—\n(i)the Authority approves the provision of microgeneration units as a market transformation action; and\n(ii)at least 2% of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation is achieved by the provision of microgeneration units;\n“X%” means 0%, but where a percentage of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation is achieved by the actions described in paragraph (3)(b), that percentage, subject to a maximum of 2%.\n(5) The Authority—\n(a) must determine whether or not the limits in paragraph (3) are exceeded; but\n(b) in doing so it must not apply the increased reduction in respect of market transformation actions provided for by—\n(i) article 19(4)(b); or\n(ii) article 19(4A)(a), (b) or (c).\n(6) A qualifying action approved by the Authority for the purposes of the Electricity and Gas (Community Energy Saving Programme) Order 2009 is not by that approval a qualifying action under this Order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 9 substituted (21.7.2009) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1904), arts. 1, 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 9(1A) inserted (31.7.2010) by The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1958), arts. 1, 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 9(6) inserted (1.9.2009) by The Electricity and Gas (Community Energy Saving Programme) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1905), arts. 1, 28"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/188/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:24.925435+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}