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#2026/155Elektrik ve Gaz (Enerji Şirketi Yükümlülüğü) (Değişiklik) Emri 2026

🇬🇧United Kingdom··Statutory Instrument·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2026 updates rules for a program that helps people lower their heating costs. It now allows certain specific grant schemes to fund measures that help reduce heating expenses, instead of requiring that no public funding is used. This change affects individuals seeking assistance with heating their homes.

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Key Changes

  • Changes the requirement that measures cannot be funded by public grants.
  • Specifies that certain grant schemes can now be used to fund qualifying actions.
  • Extends the application of the Energy Company Obligation scheme to Great Britain.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Energy companies must allow qualifying actions under the Energy Company Obligation scheme to be funded by specific grant schemes, rather than requiring measures to have no public funding

Energy companies participating in the Energy Company Obligation scheme
operational
high

Measures funded under the Energy Company Obligation scheme must be limited to those that reduce the cost to individuals of heating their homes

Energy companies participating in the Energy Company Obligation scheme
operational
medium

Energy companies must identify and apply only the specific grant schemes that are referred to in the amended condition when determining eligible funding sources for qualifying actions

Energy companies participating in the Energy Company Obligation scheme
operational

Affected Parties

Individuals needing assistance with heating costsEnergy companies involved in the Energy Company Obligation scheme

Tags

energy,heating costs,grants