The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2018

PART 9 U.K. Information and enforcement

Final determination and reporting U.K.

36.—(1) The Administrator must determine whether a participant has achieved its total home-heating cost reduction obligation.

(2) The Administrator must notify the participant in writing of its determination under paragraph (1) by no later than 30th September 2022.

(3) The Administrator must submit to the Secretary of State a report each month setting out the progress which participants have made towards achieving their total home-heating cost reduction obligation.

(4) The first report under paragraph (3) is to be submitted in the month following the month in which the commencement date occurs.

(5) The final report under paragraph (3) is to be submitted in April 2022.

(6) Not later than 30th September 2022 the Administrator must submit to the Secretary of State a report setting out whether participants achieved the overall home-heating cost reduction target.

Information from participants U.K.

37.  The Administrator may require a participant—

(a) to provide it with such information, or information of such nature, as it may specify—

(i) about the participant's proposals for complying with any requirement under this Order; or

(ii) relating to the cost to the participant of achieving its total home-heating cost reduction obligation; and

(b) to produce to it evidence, of such kind as it may specify, demonstrating that the participant is complying with, or has complied with, any requirement under this Order.

Publication of energy savings achieved by participants and provision of information to the Secretary of State by participants U.K.

38.—(1) At least once in each reporting year the Secretary of State must publish, on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, the energy savings achieved—

(a) by each participant by qualifying actions which—

(i) have been promoted by the participant; and

(ii) are not surplus actions; and

(b) by all qualifying actions other than surplus actions.

(2) No more than once each reporting year, the Secretary of State may require a participant to provide to the Secretary of State—

(a) aggregated statistical information on its final customers (identifying significant changes to previously submitted information); and

(b) current information on final customers' consumption, including, where applicable, load profiles, customer segmentation and geographical location of customers.

(3) In this article—

(a) “energy savings” and “final customer” have the meaning given by Article 2 of the Energy Efficiency Directive;

(b) “aggregated statistical information”, “customer segmentation” and “load profiles” have the same meaning as in the Energy Efficiency Directive;

(c) “the Energy Efficiency Directive” means Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy efficiency M1 ; and

(d) “reporting year” means 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Marginal Citations

M1 OJ No. L 315, 14.11.2012, p.1. The Directive has been amended but the amendments are not relevant.

Enforcement U.K.

39.  A requirement placed on a participant under this Order is a relevant requirement for the purpose of Part 1 of the Electricity Act 1989 and Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986.