The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) (Specified Period) Order 2026
This Order applies in Great Britain. It extends by nine months the specified period of the Energy Company Obligation scheme for the promotion of measures for reducing the cost to individuals of heating their homes. The overall home-heating cost reduction target will end on 31st December 2026 instead of the date originally specified in Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/875) (“the 2022 Order”). This Order extends by nine months deadlines for remaining procedural steps specified in the 2022 Order. The Order specifies 31st March 2026 as a deadline for certain applications under articles 33, 35 and 38 of the 2022 Order (but not for an application for a measure that the participant intends to promote to be approved as a standard alternative methodology measure).
Lifecycle
Department
Made
25 Mar 2026
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Comes into force
TBC
Enabling power
The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 33BD of the Gas Act 1986, section 41B of the Electricity Act 1989and section 103A of the Utilities Act 2000, with the agreement of the Scottish Ministers. The Secretary of State has consulted the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, Consumer Scotland, electricity distributors, electricity suppliers, gas transporters, gas suppliers and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate. A draft of this instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament pursuant to section 33BC(12) of the Gas Act 1986, as applied by section 33BD(4) of that Act, section 41A(12) of the Electricity Act 1989, as applied by section 41B(4) of that Act and section 103A(6) of the Utilities Act 2000.
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