The Electricity and Gas (Carbon Emissions Reduction) Order 2008

SCHEDULE A1 — HOME ENERGY ADVICE PACKAGES

1

A home energy advice package means—

• (a) a home energy survey;

• (b) home energy assistance; and

• (c) a home energy report;

2

A home energy survey means the survey of a domestic energy user’s property carried out by an energy assessor with a view to providing home energy assistance.

3

Home energy assistance means information provided by an energy assessor to a domestic energy user, in person at the time of the home energy survey, which deals with such of the matters set out in paragraph 4 as are applicable to that user.

4

The matters referred to in paragraph 3 are—

• (a) where programming or heating controls—

• (i) are installed, how these controls may be used more effectively to achieve energy efficiency savings or energy savings;

• (ii) are not installed, whether they would be appropriate for the property.

• (b) where a boiler is installed to provide heating or hot water—

• (i) an assessment as to whether that boiler is working efficiently;

• (ii) how that boiler may be used more effectively to achieve energy efficiency savings or energy savings;

• (iii) whether that boiler could be replaced by a more efficient model.

• (c) in respect of any electrical appliances or devices, how they may be used more effectively to achieve energy efficiency savings or energy savings;

• (d) how energy efficiency savings or energy savings can be achieved in relation to general hot-water use especially that connected to the use of showers, baths and washing machines;

• (e) such other information which an energy assessor reasonably believes may assist a domestic energy user to achieve energy efficiency savings or energy savings.

5

A home energy report means a report that sets out in writing—

• (a) the home energy assistance;

• (b) a list of actions or measures which will help the particular domestic energy user to achieve energy efficiency savings or energy savings; and

• (c) the contact details for the Energy Saving Trust,

and is provided to a domestic energy user within three months of the home energy survey.

Super priority group obligation

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• (1) A supplier must achieve the super priority group obligation by promoting on or after 1st August 2010 measures to members of the super priority group in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

• (2) Subject to paragraph (3), a supplier must achieve the super priority group obligation by the provision to members of the super priority group, on or after 1st August 2010, of—

• (a) an air source heat pump;

• (b) cavity wall insulation;

• (c) flat roof insulation;

• (d) fuel switching;

• (e) a ground source heat pump;

• (f) loft insulation;

• (g) a replacement boiler;

• (h) solid wall insulation;

• (i) under floor insulation; or

• (j) a wood chip boiler, including a combined heat and power wood chip boiler,

which is professionally installed.

• (3) Where a supplier—

• (a) promotes a single measure to a member of the super priority group, that measure must be one of the measures listed in paragraph (2);

• (b) promotes more than one measure to a member of the super priority group, at least one of those measures must be a measure listed in paragraph (2).

• (4) In this article—

• (a) “fuel switching” means changing the primary heating fuel used by a domestic energy user from coal, electricity or oil to a mains gas supply;

• (b) “replacement boiler” means a boiler which replaces a G-rated boiler and which meets the requirements of Part L of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2000; and where “G-rated boiler” means a boiler which has a seasonal efficiency value of less than 70% when that boiler is assessed against the Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy rating of Dwellings (2005 Edition).

Priority group flexibility action