{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2023/article-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2023/article-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/873",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-energy-company-obligation-order-2023",
  "path": "article/30",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Calculating the score for ECO4A qualifying actions",
  "text": "(1) The score to be given to an ECO4A qualifying action is to be calculated in accordance with the following formula—\nKM×1±IM±R.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) “KM” is the annual cost savings of the ECO4A qualifying action determined in accordance with the methodology published by the Administrator under article 32;\n(b) “IM” has the value determined in accordance with article 31;\n(c) “R” is—\n(i) 0.2, where the ECO4A qualifying action is—\n(aa) a low-income qualifying action; and\n(bb) installed at off-gas premises in a rural area in Scotland or Wales;\n(ii) otherwise, 0.\n(3) In this article—\n“off-gas premises” has the meaning given in article 2(1) of the 2022 Order;\n“rural area” means—\n(a)in respect of an area in England and Wales, an area classified as rural in the “2021 rural-urban classification of output areas” published by the Office for National Statistics in March 2025;\n(b)in respect of an area in Scotland, an area classified as rural in the “Scottish Government Urban Renewal Classification 2022” published by the Scottish Government in December 2024.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 30(3) substituted (1.8.2025) by The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/941), arts. 1(2), 4(2) (with art. 4(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 30 in force at 25.7.2023, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/873/article/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:49.717731+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."
}