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The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2018

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12.—(1) No more than 25% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by qualifying actions which are—

(a)qualifying actions by virtue of meeting the condition in article 17; or

(b)heating qualifying actions, within the meaning of article 16(3) of the 2014 Order, by virtue of meeting the condition in article 16A(3), (4) or (5) of that Order.

(2) No more than 10% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by qualifying actions which are—

(a)demonstration actions; or

(b)innovation measures other than excess innovation measures.

(3) No more than 10% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by qualifying actions which are monitored measures.

(4) No more than 5% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by the same demonstration action.

(5) No more than 5% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by innovation measures—

(a)which fall within the same innovation measure description; and

(b)which are not excess innovation measures, demonstration actions or monitored measures.

(6) No more than 5% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by measures which are the repair of a boiler.

(7) No more than 5% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by measures which are the repair of an electric storage heater.

(8) No more than 21.023% of a participant’s total home-heating cost reduction obligation may be achieved by measures to which paragraph (9) applies.

(9) This paragraph applies to a measure which the Administrator is satisfied—

(a)is installed at domestic premises which immediately prior to the installation of the measure—

(i)have a boiler, central heating system or district heating connection which in each case has broken down and cannot be economically repaired;

(ii)have one or more electric storage heaters, all of which are broken down and cannot be economically repaired; or

(iii)do not have a boiler, central heating system, district heating connection or electric storage heater, but which have been heated by a boiler, central heating system, district heating connection or electric storage heater; and

(b)is not—

(i)installed to improve the insulating properties of domestic premises;

(ii)a district heating connection;

(iii)a first time heating system;

(iv)a secondary heating measure;

(v)the installation of heating controls;

(vi)a demonstration action;

(vii)an innovation measure;

(viii)a renewable heating measure; or

(ix)a repair.

(10) In this article—

“excess innovation measure” means an innovation measure which, following an application under article 29(4), is designated as an excess innovation measure for the purposes of that article and this article;

“innovation measure description” has the meaning given in article 21(2).

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