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Energy Act 2011

Section 69: Promotion of reductions in home-heating costs: electricity distributors and suppliers

170.This section inserts new powers into the Electricity Act 1989 to allow the Secretary of State to make an order which imposes on electricity distributors and electricity suppliers an obligation to achieve a ‘home-heating cost reduction target’.

171.Section 69 inserts a new section 41B into the Electricity Act 1989. Subsection (2)(b) of the new section defines the home-heating cost reduction target as a target for the promotion of measures for reducing the cost to individuals of heating their homes. Subsection (4) of the new section applies many of the provisions found in section 41A of the Electricity Act 1989 to orders made under the new section 41B so as to create a similar framework for establishing a separate home-heating cost reduction target.

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