# The Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012, Article 13: Achievement of carbon saving community obligation

Extent: E+W+S

(1) A supplier must achieve its total carbon saving community obligation by 31st March 2015.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a supplier must achieve its total carbon saving community obligation by promoting carbon saving community qualifying actions ... in an area of low income.
(3) Subject to article 14, a supplier may achieve part of its total carbon saving community obligation by carrying out carbon saving community qualifying actions ... in a specified adjoining area subject to—
(a) the limit on the amount of such actions in article 14(2); and
(b) the provisions of article 14(4).
(4) A supplier must achieve at least 15% of its total carbon saving community obligation by promoting carbon saving community qualifying actions—
(a) to members of the affordable warmth group living in a rural area; or
(b) the installation of which is carried out on or after 1st April 2014 in a deprived rural area.
(5) A carbon saving community qualifying action is the installation , at domestic premises, of a measure in paragraph (6) where the conditions in paragraph (7) are satisfied.
(6) The measures referred to in paragraph (5) are—
(a) a recommended measure installed to improve the insulating properties of the premises; or
(b) a connection to a district heating system where that connection is made—
(i) to premises which have loft or wall insulation; or
(ii) on or after 1st April 2014 to premises which—
(aa) do not include the top floor of the building in which those premises are located, and where the walls of those premises cannot be insulated; or
(bb) have flat roof, loft, rafter, room-in-roof or wall insulation.
(7) The conditions referred to in paragraph (5) are—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) that the installation must be carried out—
(i) after 30th September 2012; and
(ii) in accordance with the Publicly Available Specification where the installation is referred to in the Specification.
(8) In this article—
“deprived rural area” means an area in Great Britain which is described as a deprived rural area in the 2014 low income and rural document;
“rural area” means an area in Great Britain which is described as a rural area in the 2012 low income and rural document.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3018/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-companies-obligation-order-2012/article-13
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