The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010

SECTION 1 Electricity, gas and fuels: general

Electricity

1.—(1) Subject to section 3, a public body or undertaking (“A”) is supplied with electricity by a person (“B”) where—

(a) A agrees with B that B will supply electricity to A and that A will pay B for that supply;

(b) A receives a supply further to that agreement; and

(c) that supply is measured by a metering device or is a dynamic supply.

(2) A supply of electricity is made at the time it is received.

(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(c) “metering device” is a device where the electricity supplied is charged for as measured by the device.

Gas

2.—(1) Subject to section 3, a public body or undertaking (“A”) is supplied with gas by a person (“B”) where—

(a) A agrees with B that B will supply gas to A and that A will pay B for that supply;

(b) A receives a supply further to that agreement; and

(c) that supply is measured by a metering device.

(2) A supply of gas is made at the time it is received.

(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(c), a “metering device” is a device where the gas supplied is charged for as measured by the device.

Fuels

3.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) and section 3, a public body or undertaking (“A”) is supplied with fuel by a person (“B”) where—

(a) A agrees with B that B will supply fuel to A and that A will pay B for that supply; and

(b) A receives a supply further to that agreement.

(2) No supply of fuel is made under sub-paragraph (1) where that fuel is supplied under paragraph 2.

(3) A supply is made to A—

(a) at the time the supply is delivered to A; or

(b) if later, at the time that B provides written confirmation to A of the delivery.

(4) In this paragraph—

“fuel” means any of the fuels listed in column 1 of the table in paragraph 4 (“fuels table”);

“waste” (including in “waste oil” and “waste solvents” in that table)—

(a)

has the meaning given in section 75(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1); but

(b)

excludes—

(i)

any other fuel (except waste oil or waste solvents);

(ii)

biomass; or

(iii)

gas derived from a landfill site or produced from the treatment of sewage.

(5) In sub-paragraph (4), “biomass” has the same meaning it has under article 4 of the Renewables Obligation Order 2009(2) and as if that article applied in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Fuels table

4.  The fuels table referred to in paragraph 3—

Fuels table

Fuel	Measurement unit
Aviation spirit	tonnes
Aviation turbine fuel	tonnes
Basic Oxygen Steel (BOS) gas	kWh
Blast furnace gas	kWh
Burning oil/kerosene/paraffin	litres
Cement industry coal	tonnes
Coke oven gas	kWh
Commercial and public sector coal	tonnes
Coking coal	tonnes
Colliery methane	kWh
Diesel	litres
Fuel oil	tonnes
Gas oil	litres
Industrial coal	tonnes
Lignite	tonnes
Liquid petroleum gas (LPG)	litres
Peat	tonnes
Naphtha	tonnes
Natural gas	kWh
Other petroleum gas	kWh
Petrol	litres
Petroleum coke	tonnes
Scrap tyres	tonnes
Solid smokeless fuel	tonnes
Sour gas	kWh
Waste (other than waste oil or waste solvents)	tonnes
Waste oil	tonnes
Waste solvents	tonnes

Measurement units

5.—(1) Where in this Order information must be provided concerning a supply of electricity, gas or fuel, the amount of that supply must be expressed in the applicable measurement unit.

(2) The following measurement units apply—

(a) electricity and gas, kWh;

(b) fuels, as stated in column 2 of the fuels table.

(1)

1990 c. 43. Section 75(2) was amended by section 120(1) of and paragraph 88(1) and (2) of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25) under which the definition of “waste” was inserted. There are other amendments to that section which are not relevant.

(2)

S.I. 2009/785.