Statutory Instruments
2023 No. 389
Electricity
The Electricity Supplier Obligations (Green Excluded Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Made
29th March 2023
Coming into force
1st April 2023
The Secretary of State has consulted the persons listed in section 24(1) of the Energy Act 2013( 1 ) (the “ Act ”) and has had regard to the matters in section 5(2) of the Act.
In accordance with section 6(8)(b) of the Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(1) and (6), 9(1), (6)(b), and (7), 17, 19, 20 and 21(1) of the Act( 2 ), makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supplier Obligations (Green Excluded Electricity) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2023.
Amendment of the Contracts for Difference (Electricity Supplier Obligations) Regulations 2014
2. —(1) The Contracts for Difference (Electricity Supplier Obligations) Regulations 2014( 3 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1)—
(a) after the definition of “connected agreement”, insert—
“ “ EII excluded electricity ” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Excluded Electricity Regulations; ” ;
(b) omit the definitions of “excluded electricity”, “EII excluded electricity” and “green excluded electricity”( 4 ).
(3) In regulation 4—
(a) in paragraph (1)—
(i) for the formula, substitute—
(ii) omit the definition of “GE”;
(iii) omit the definition of “GT”;
(b) omit paragraph (1A);
(c) omit paragraph (1B).
(4) In regulation 5, for the definition of “XEP” substitute—
“ “XEP” is the amount of EII excluded electricity supplied by that supplier in that period; ” .
Amendment of the Electricity Supplier Obligations (Amendment & Excluded Electricity) Regulations 2015
3. —(1) The Electricity Supplier Obligations (Amendment & Excluded Electricity) Regulations 2015( 5 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1)—
(a) omit the definition of “excluded electricity”;
(b) omit the definition of “green excluded electricity”.
(3) In Part 2, omit Chapter 1 (green excluded electricity).
Graham Stuart
Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
29th March 2023
Sections 6, 17 and 19 of the Act have been amended by section 18 of the Energy Prices Act 2022 c. 44 .
S.I. 2014/2014 ; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2015/721 , S.I. 2017/502 and S.I. 2020/709 .
These definitions were inserted by S.I. 2015/721 .
S.I. 2015/721 , amended by S.I. 2018/1092 ; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.