The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014

Duty to notify U.K.

3.—(1) Heat suppliers must, in relation to each district heat network or communal heating operated by them, submit a notification to the Secretary of State, or in relation to a Scottish network the Scottish Ministers, as to the following—

(a) the location of that district heat network or communal heating;

(b) the estimated total for that district heat network or communal heating, per calendar year, of—

(i) installed heating capacity,

(ii) heat generated, and

(iii) heat supplied;

(c) the number and type of buildings supplied by that district heat network or communal heating;

[F1 (ca) the number of buildings supplied by that district heat network or communal heating in each class;]

(d) the number and type of meters or heat cost allocators installed in any buildings supplied by that district heat network or communal heating;

(e) the number of final customers supplied by that district heat network or communal heating;

(f) the name and business address of the heat supplier;

(g) where any analysis [F2 has been carried out in accordance with Schedule 1 for the purpose of regulation 4 or 6], the results of that analysis together with details of any meters or heat cost allocators which have been installed as a result;

(h) the expected frequency and content of billing information provided by the heat supplier to the final customers; and

(i) any other information reasonably required by an authorised person for the purpose of determining whether the heat supplier has complied with the duties in these regulations.

(2) Heat suppliers must comply with the duty in paragraph (1)—

(a) on or before the [F3 31st December 2015]; or

(b) in relation to a district heat network or communal heating that commences operation after [F3 31st December 2015], on or before the first date of operation.

(3) [F4 Subject to paragraph (4), a] heat supplier must submit an updated notification within four years of the date of the first notification submitted and within every four year period thereafter from the date of the previous notification.

[F5 (4) If an updated notification is due to be submitted by a heat supplier in the period beginning on 27th November 2020 and ending on 1st September 2022, the heat supplier may submit the updated notification at any time before the end of that period.

(5) A change of heat supplier in relation to a district heat network or communal heating does not alter the period within which the heat supplier must comply with paragraph (3).

(6) A notification or updated notification must be submitted in a form approved by the Secretary of State or, in relation to a Scottish network, the Scottish Ministers.

(7) The Secretary of State or, in relation to a Scottish network, the Scottish Ministers may—

(a) reject a notification or updated notification that does not comply with paragraph (6); and

(b) require the heat supplier to resubmit the notification or updated notification in a form that complies with that paragraph.

(8) In this regulation, “class” in relation to a building supplied by a district heat network or communal heating means viable class, open class or exempt class within the meaning of regulation 2A.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 3(1)(ca) inserted (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(a)

F2 Words in reg. 3(1)(g) substituted (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(b)

F3 Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (20.4.2015) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/855), regs. 1, 3

F4 Words in reg. 3(3) substituted (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 5(3)

F5 Reg. 3(4)-(8) inserted (27.11.2020) by The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1221), regs. 1(2), 5(4)