The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2014

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2014/3219
Year2014
  • This Order may be cited as the Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2014 and comes into force on the day after the day on which this Order is made.
  • (1) In this Order—
    • 2012 Order” means the Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012 ;
    • 2014 low income and rural document” means the document entitled “The Future of the Energy Company Obligation: Small Area Geographies Eligible for ECO CSCO Support”, published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 18th July 2014 ;
    • Administrator” means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority established by section 1 of the Utilities Act 2000;
    • affordable warmth group” means a group of persons where each person in the group is in receipt of at least one of the benefits in Schedule 1 and meets the conditions in relation to that benefit which are specified in that Schedule;
    • “area of low income” (except in relation to article 27) means an area in Great Britain which is described as an area of low income in the 2014 low income and rural document;
    • “carbon qualifying action” (except in relation to the terms defined in paragraph (2) ) has the meaning given in article 12(3) ;
    • carbon saving” means the lifetime tonnes of carbon dioxide that a qualifying action or surplus action will save;
    • carbon saving community obligation” means the obligation for the promotion of carbon saving community qualifying actions which is imposed on a supplier in respect of a phase;
    • “carbon saving community qualifying action” (except in relation to the terms defined in paragraph (2) ) has the meaning given in article 14(4) ;
    • F85“certified installer”, in relation to the installation of a measure, means a person who is certified as compliant with those parts of PAS 2014 or PAS 2017 that apply to the measure by a certification body or organisation accredited to EN 45011 or EN ISO/IEC 17065:2012;
    • “commencement date” means the date on which the Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2017 comes into force;
    • cost saving” means, in relation to a heating qualifying action or a surplus action—
      • (a) the money that would be saved by that action over its expected lifetime in heating a home to 21 degrees...

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