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The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022

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Calculating allowances and giving a score to an ECO4 project or to a qualifying action

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47.—(1) To determine whether a participant has achieved its total home-heating cost reduction obligation, the Administrator must—

(a)calculate the participant’s data light measure allowance, exempted project allowance, heating repair allowance and heating replacement allowance, in accordance with article 48;

(b)give a score to each ECO4 project that meets the requirements of article 49 (see article 53 in relation to the calculation of the score); and

(c)give a score to each qualifying action which—

(i)is part of an ECO4 project that does not meet the requirements of article 49 (see whichever is relevant of articles 67 to 72 in relation to the calculation of the score);

(ii)is an in-fill measure (see article 77 in relation to the calculation of the score); or

(iii)is a surplus action or an ECO3 interim delivery action (see article 78 in relation to the calculation of the score).

(2) The Administrator may give a score to each ECO4 project and to each qualifying action in such order as it thinks fit.

(3) The Administrator must notify a participant of—

(a)its data light measure allowance, exempted project allowance, heating repair allowance and heating replacement allowance; and

(b)the score it has given to an ECO4 project or qualifying action promoted by the participant.

(4) The Administrator must comply with paragraphs (1) and (3) in the period beginning with 1st July 2026 and ending with 30th September 2026.

(5) In this Part, references—

(a)to a participant are to the participant that promoted the ECO4 project or qualifying action in question;

(b)to domestic premises are to the domestic premises at which the qualifying actions forming part of the ECO4 project in question are installed, or at which the qualifying action in question is installed;

(c)to the ECO4 project in question are to the ECO4 project for which it is being determined whether the project meets the requirements of article 49, or for which a score is being calculated;

(d)to the qualifying action in question are to the qualifying action for which a score is being calculated.

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