Consultation outcome

Updates to the Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012

• From: Department of Energy & Climate Change
• Published: 24 July 2013
• Last updated: 3 February 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Government response

Ref: 14D/035

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Detail of outcome

This document sets out the government’s response to its consultation of 24 July 2013 on amendments to the Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) (ECO) Order 2012. These amendments included facilitating the transfer of “excess actions” between obligated suppliers, making clearer in the legislation that ECO measures can be installed in a period when a property is not occupied and, amending the legislation to allow certain people in receipt of Universal Credit to be eligible for support under the home heating cost reduction obligation.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on a small number of technical amendments to the Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012.

This consultation ran from
24 July 2013 to 11:45pm on 16 September 2013

Consultation description

This consultation seeks views on a small number of technical amendments to the Electricity and Gas (Energy Companies Obligation) Order 2012. The amendments are designed to ensure the ECO Order is aligned with changes in the broader policy landscape, and to provide greater clarity on certain aspects of the Scheme to aid its continued smooth delivery.

Documents

Consultation document

Ref: 13D/167

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Published 24 July 2013
Last updated 3 February 2014 + show all updates

1. 3 February 2014

   The government response has been published today.

2. 24 July 2013

   First published.