Sustainable Energy Act 2003

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation2003 c. 30
cutting the United Kingdom’s carbon emissions;maintaining the reliability of the United Kingdom’s energy supplies;promoting competitive energy markets in the United Kingdom; reducing the number of people living in fuel poverty in the United Kingdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .things done during that period pursuant to section 19 of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 for the purpose of promoting community energy projects;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .things done during that period for the purpose of implementing the strategy for the promotion of microgeneration in Great Britain published under section 82 of the Energy Act 2004.(1AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(1C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .the period beginning with 24 February 2008 and ending with 31 December 2008, andeach successive calendar year.(3) A sustainable energy report must be published during the period beginning with 1 January and ending with 31 October following the reporting period to which it relates (“the publication period”) .(4) A sustainable energy report may either be published as a single report or published in a number of parts during the publication period, and any such report or part may be contained in a document containing other material.(4A) A report or part of a report published under this section must specify the period to which it relates.(5) A sustainable energy report must be based on such information as is available to the Secretary of State when the report is completed (except that if it is published in parts, each of those parts must be based on such information as is so available when that part is completed) .(6) For the purposes of this section a person is to be regarded as living in fuel poverty if he is a member of a household living on a lower income in a home which cannot be kept warm at a reasonable cost.(1) The Secretary of State must within one week beginning with the coming into force of this section designate under this subsection at least one energy efficiency aim.is contained in a published document;relates to the energy efficiency of residential accommodation in England; andis compatible with F10EU obligations and any other international obligations of the United Kingdom.(3) The Secretary of State may, at any time after designation under subsection (1) , designate under this subsection a further energy efficiency aim or aims.(4) Where an energy efficiency aim is for the time being designated under this section, the Secretary of State must take reasonable steps to achieve the aim.(5) In deciding which steps to take for the purposes of subsection (4) , the Secretary of State must consider steps relating to the heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and insulation of residential accommodation.(6) A designation under this section may be withdrawn, but not if its withdrawal would result in there being no energy efficiency aim designated under this section.(7) If an energy efficiency aim designated under this section ceases to meet the condition in subsection (2) (c) it ceases to be designated under this section, but if this results in there being no energy efficiency aim so designated the Secretary of State must without delay designate a new energy efficiency aim.(8) A designation of an aim under this section, or a withdrawal or cessation of such a designation, must be published in such way as the Secretary of State considers appropriate: a designation may be contained in the same published document as the aim itself.(9) In this section “residential accommodation” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 (c. 10) .(1) The National Assembly for Wales (“the Assembly”) must within one week beginning with the coming into force of this section designate under this subsection at least one energy efficiency aim.is contained in a published document;relates to the energy efficiency of residential accommodation in Wales; andis compatible with F10EU obligations and any other international obligations of the United Kingdom.(3) The Assembly may, at any time after designation under subsection (1) , designate under this subsection a further energy efficiency aim or aims.(4) Where an energy efficiency aim is for the time being designated under this section, the Assembly must (using the powers it has apart from this section) take reasonable steps to achieve the aim.(5) In deciding which steps to take for the purposes of subsection (4) , the Assembly must consider steps relating to the heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and insulation of residential accommodation.(6) A designation under this section may be withdrawn, but not if its withdrawal would result

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