PART 2Overall carbon emissions reduction target, overall carbon saving community target and overall home heating cost reduction target
Overall carbon emissions reduction target, carbon saving community target and home heating cost reduction target
3.—(1) For the period 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2017 the overall—
(a)carbon emissions reduction target is 12.4 MtCO2;
(b)carbon saving community target is 6 MtCO2;
(c)home heating cost reduction target is £3.7bn cost savings.
(2) The Administrator must ensure that—
(a)the total of all carbon emissions reduction obligations imposed on suppliers (excluding the increase, if any, in those obligations which applies by virtue of article 11) equals the overall carbon emissions reduction target;
(b)the total of all carbon saving community obligations imposed on suppliers equals the overall carbon savings community target; and
(c)the total of all home heating cost reduction obligations imposed on suppliers equals the overall home heating cost reduction target.
Definition of a supplier
4.—(1) A licence-holder is a supplier where—
(a)the licence-holder supplies or, for a group company, the group supplies, more than—
(i)250,000 domestic customers at the end of 31st December of any relevant year; and
(ii)a qualifying supply in the year ending on that date; or
(b)an ECO1 CERO target was imposed on the licence-holder under the 2012 Order.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), where a licence-holder (“L”) is a member of a group (“G”), the supplies made by G are to be determined by reference to the type of supply in respect of which L is a licence-holder.
(3) A new supplier is a supplier to whom paragraph (1) applies for the first time on 31st December 2015.
(4) For the purposes of determining the number of domestic customers of a licence-holder under this Order, a domestic customer who receives electricity and gas from a dual licence-holder is a separate domestic customer under each licence.
(5) Where a dual licence-holder satisfies paragraph (1) in respect of electricity or gas that licence-holder is a separate supplier in respect of each supply.
Article 4: group companies
5.—(1) This article applies for the purposes of article 4(1)(a).
(2) Whether or not a licence-holder is a group company is to be determined on the date referred to in article 4(1)(a).
(3) Where under paragraph (2) a licence-holder is a group company, the amount of electricity or, as applicable, gas supplied by the group in the year ending on the date referred to in article 4(1)(a), is the amount supplied by all licence-holders in the group during that year, whether or not they were members of the group throughout that year.
Notification by suppliers of domestic customers and energy supplied
6.—(1) A person who is a supplier at the end of a notification period must notify the Administrator by the notification date for that period of—
(a)the number of that supplier’s domestic customers at the end of that period;
(b)the amount of electricity or gas supplied to its domestic customers in that period.
(2) Where a supplier fails to do so or where the Administrator considers that a notification is inaccurate, the Administrator may determine for the purposes of paragraph (1) the number of domestic customers of a supplier or the amount of electricity or gas supplied.
(3) Where a supplier (“S”) is a group company at the end of a notification period, S must also notify the Administrator by the notification date for that period of the name of each other supplier in the group, its company registration number and the amount of electricity or gas supplied by the group in that period.
(4) In paragraph (3), “each other supplier in the group” means each supplier which makes the type of supply in respect of which S is a supplier.
(5) Where under paragraph (3) a supplier is a member of a group with another supplier, the amount of electricity or, as applicable, gas supplied by the group in the relevant notification period is the amount supplied by those suppliers whether or not a supplier was a member of the group throughout that notification period.
(6) Where a supplier fails to provide the information in paragraph (3), or the Administrator considers any of the information notified by the supplier under that paragraph is inaccurate, the Administrator may for the purposes of that paragraph determine the matters to which that information relates.
(7) Anything determined by the Administrator under paragraph (2) or (6) is to be treated as if it were notified by the supplier.
(8) In this article, “notification date” means, in relation to the notification period for—
(a)phase 1, 1st February 2015;
(b)phase 2, 1st February 2016.