Article 50 ECO4 projects: minimum requirement for energy efficiency improvementI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

An ECO4 project meets the minimum requirement for energy efficiency improvement in this article if it meets—

(a)

condition A;

(b)

where the participant’s exempted project allowance is not exhausted, condition B; or

(c)

condition C.

(2)

Condition A is met if the Administrator is satisfied, in relation to the domestic premises, that—

(a)

if the pre-project SAP band is band D or E, the post-project SAP band is band A, B or C;

(b)

if the pre-project SAP band is band F or G, the post-project SAP band is band A, B, C or D.

(3)

Condition B is met if—

(a)

the pre-project SAP band for the domestic premises is band E, F or G; and

(b)

the Administrator is satisfied that—

(i)

the ECO4 project could not meet condition A because—

(aa)

to do so would require the installation of one or more measures which attract an exemption under Part 11; or

(bb)

there is no combination of ECO4 eligible measures that would have enabled the project to meet condition A; and

(ii)

as compared to the measures in the ECO4 project, no other combination of ECO4 eligible measures, excluding those attracting an exemption under Part 11, would have resulted in a larger increase in the SAP rating for the premises.

(4)

Condition C is met if, in the case of domestic premises that have a pre-project SAP band of E, F or G, the Administrator is satisfied that neither condition A nor condition B could be met because there has been a change in the people who are occupying the premises.

(5)

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a participant’s exempted project allowance is not exhausted if X is less than the participant’s exempted project allowance, where “X” is the number of ECO4 projects promoted by the participant—

(a)

which meet condition B in paragraph (3); and

(b)

for which the Administrator has given a positive score under article 47(1)(b) before the ECO4 project in question.

(6)

In this article, “post-project SAP band” has the meaning given in article 51.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 50 in force at 27.7.2022, see art. 1(1)