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This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2025/269 and 2026/7 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.

Statutory Instruments

2026 No. 10

Energy

The Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026

Made

6th January 2026

Laid before Parliament

7th January 2026

Coming into force

28th January 2026

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 219(1) and (4) of, and Part 11 of Schedule 18 to, the Energy Act 2023(1).

In accordance with sections 219(7) and 220 of that Act, before making these Regulations, the Secretary of State—

(a)

consulted such persons or bodies as the Secretary of State considered appropriate; and

(b)

gave notice to, and considered the representations of, the Scottish Ministers.

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2026.

Commencement

2. These Regulations come into force on the 21st day after the day on which they are laid before Parliament.

Extent

3. These Regulations extend to England and Wales and to Scotland.

Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025 amended

4.—(1) The Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 56(11) (application of Part 2 of the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 with modifications)—

(a) for the definition of “micro-business” substitute—

““micro-business” means a business that—

(a)

consumes less than 247,000 kilowatt hours of heat per year; or

(b)

has fewer than 10 full-time equivalent employees and—

(i)

an annual turnover of £2 million or less; or

(ii)

a balance sheet total of £2 million or less;”;

(b) for the definition of “small business” substitute—

““small business” means a business other than a micro-business that—

(a)

consumes less than 420,000 kilowatt hours of heat per year; or

(b)

has fewer than 50 full-time equivalent employees and—

(i)

an annual turnover of £6.5 million or less; or

(ii)

a balance sheet total of £5 million or less.”.

Martin McCluskey

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

6th January 2026

(1)

2023 c. 52. See section 219(9) of the meaning of “the appropriate authority” in section 219(1).

(2)

S.I. 2025/269, amended by S.I. 2026/7.

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