# The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) Order 2008, Article 9: Achievement of carbon emissions reduction obligations

Extent: E+W+S

(1) A supplier must achieve its carbon emissions reduction obligation by promoting qualifying actions to domestic energy users.
(1A) A supplier must achieve its insulation obligation by promoting on or after 1st August 2010—
(a) cavity wall insulation;
(b) flat roof insulation;
(c) loft insulation;
(d) solid wall insulation; or
(e) under floor insulation,
which is professionally installed.
(2) A qualifying action must be approved by the Authority.
(3) A supplier must achieve its carbon emissions reduction obligation without exceeding any of the following limits—
(a) no more than Y% minus X% of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation may be achieved by—
(i) a market transformation action;
(ii) a demonstration action; or
(iii) both such actions;
(b) no more than 2% of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation may be achieved by the provision of—
(i) a real-time display;
(ii) a home energy advice package; or
(iii) both.
(4) In paragraph (3)(a)—
“Y%” means—
(a)10%; but
(b)12% where—
(i)the Authority approves the provision of microgeneration units as a market transformation action; and
(ii)at least 2% of a supplier’s carbon emissions reduction obligation is achieved by the provision of microgeneration units;
“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%.
(5) The Authority—
(a) must determine whether or not the limits in paragraph (3) are exceeded; but
(b) in doing so it must not apply the increased reduction in respect of market transformation actions provided for by—
(i) article 19(4)(b); or
(ii) article 19(4A)(a), (b) or (c).
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/188/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-carbon-emissions-reduction-order-2008/article-9
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