The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2018

Measures installed at private domestic premises

14.—(1) A measure meets the condition in this article if the measure is installed at owner-occupied premises which are occupied by a member of the help to heat group.

(2) A measure also meets the condition in this article if—

(a) the measure is installed at A to E private rented premises occupied by a member of the help to heat group; and

(b) the measure is not the replacement or repair of a boiler, electric storage heater or central heating system that has broken down.

(3) A measure also meets the condition in this article if—

(a) the measure is installed at F, G or unrated private rented premises occupied by a member of the help to heat group; and

(b) the measure is—

(i) solid wall insulation; or

(ii) a renewable heating measure.

(4) A measure also meets the condition in this article if the measure (“the in-fill measure”) is—

(a) installed at private domestic premises;

(b) solid wall insulation or a district heating connection; and

(c) linked with at least two other qualifying actions (“the primary actions”) which are—

(i) also solid wall insulation or district heating connections, as the case may be;

(ii) promoted by the same participant that promoted the in-fill measure;

(iii) each installed at separate domestic premises which are—

(aa) private domestic premises occupied by a member of the help to heat group; or

(bb) social housing to which paragraph (2) or (3) of article 16 applies;

(iv) installed in the same area as the in-fill measure; and

(v) completed within the same 6 month period as the in-fill measure.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), an in-fill measure is linked with a primary action if—

(a) the in-fill measure is notified under article 24 after, or on the same day as, the notification of the primary action under that article;

(b) when notifying the in-fill measure under that article, the participant includes information sufficient to enable the Administrator to identify the primary action with which it is to be linked; and

(c) the primary action is not already linked with another in-fill measure.

(6) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(c)(iv), measures are installed in the same area if the domestic premises at which they are installed are located in the same building, in immediately adjacent buildings or in the same terrace.

(7) In this article, “help to heat group” means a group of persons where each person in the group is—

(a) awarded at least one of the benefits set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 and meets any condition in relation to that benefit which is specified in that Schedule; or

(b) a core group customer in relation to a scheme year beginning on or after 1st April 2019, where “core group customer” and “scheme year” have the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Warm Home Discount Regulations 2011(1).

(1)

S.I. 2011/1033, as amended by S.I. 2014/695, S.I. 2015/652 and S.I. 2016/806 and the Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018.