The Electricity and Gas (Energy Efficiency Obligations) Order 2001

Determination and notification of energy efficiency targets

3.—(1) For the purposes of the exercise by the Authority of its functions under this Order, the overall target for the promotion of improvements in energy efficiency in Great Britain, as regards the period beginning on 1st April 2002 and ending immediately before 1st April 2005, is 62 fuel-standardised terawatt hours.

(2) The Authority shall—

(a) subject to subsection (4) requirements, determine by reference to the criteria referred to in paragraph (3), a target for each supplier to which article 2(1) applies; and

(b) by notice in writing given to the supplier not later than 31st January 2002, inform it of its target.

(3) The criteria mentioned in paragraph (2) are—

(a) the number of the supplier’s domestic consumers on 31st December 2001; and

(b) the relevant adjustment factor.

(4) The target to be determined for each supplier to which article 2(4) or (5) applies shall be ascertained, subject to subsection (4) requirements, by—

(a) calculating the target to which it would have been subject on the assumptions—

(i) that it was a supplier to which article 2(1) applied; and

(ii) that the number of its domestic consumers on 31st December 2002 or, as the case may be, 31st December 2003, was the number of its domestic consumers on 31st December 2001; and

(b) multiplying the resultant figure—

(i) in a case to which article 2(4) applies, by ⅔;

(ii) in a case to which article 2(5) applies, by ⅓.

(5) The Authority shall, by notice in writing given to each supplier to which article 2(4) or (5) applies, inform the supplier of the target determined for it in accordance with paragraph (4) above; and the notice shall be given—

(a) in the case of a supplier who is subject to an obligation under paragraph (4) of article 2 with effect from 1st April 2003, not later than 31st January 2003;

(b) in the case of a supplier who is subject to an obligation under paragraph (5) of article 2 with effect from 1st April 2004, not later than 31st January 2004.

(6) Each supplier for which a target is to be determined in accordance with paragraph (2) or (4), shall, not later than 10th January preceding each year beginning 1st April in which it is subject to an obligation under article 2, notify the Authority in writing of the number of its domestic consumers on the preceding 31st December.

(7) For the purposes of this article “relevant adjustment factor” means the percentage shown as applicable to the supplier in question by reference to the number or, as the case may be, the assumed number, of its domestic consumers on 31st December 2001, by reference to graph 1 and, in the case of a supplier of up to 1 million domestic consumers, more particularly by reference to graph 2, set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.