Secondary Legislation under Energy Act 2023

Showing 29 Statutory Instruments linked to this bill.

Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Reference: 2026 No. 701
Laid before Parliament: 1 July 2026
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make changes in relation to the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (“ESOS”) which was established under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1643) (“the 2014 Regulations”).

Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage (Financing of Costs of Offshore Decommissioning) Regulations 2026

Reference: 2026 No. 632
Laid before Parliament: 15 June 2026
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision for the establishment of offshore decommissioning funds to meet the decommissioning costs relating to offshore carbon dioxide-related infrastructure. Obligations in respect of the decommissioning and abandonment of such infrastructure are established in other legislation – for instance, Part 4 of the Petroleum Act 1998, the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) Regulations 2010, and other licensing regulations applicable to different parts of the United Kingdom. These Regulations require security for the costs of such decommissioning obligations to be provided by way of an offshore decommissioning fund, and establish requirements for these funds in respect of the fund operational and post operations periods, as defined in regulation 2 and Schedule 1.

Electricity Network Connections (Designated Strategic Plans) Regulations 2026

Reference: 2026 No. 223
Laid before Parliament: 9 March 2026
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text Under section 165A(1) of the Energy Act 2023 (“the 2023 Act”) the Independent System Operator and Planner (“ISOP”) must have regard to those plans or documents designated as strategic plans under section 165A(2) (“designated strategic plans”) when carrying out functions relating to network connections. The Secretary of State by notice designated the National Energy System Operator Limited as the ISOP with effect from 1st October 2024.

Conservation of Habitats and Species (Offshore Wind) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2026

Laid before Parliament: 26 February 2026
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations are made under section 293 of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) which enables regulations to make provision about the taking or securing of measures in compensation for adverse environmental effects of offshore wind activities (“compensatory measures”). Such measures must be secured where offshore wind activity is agreed to, notwithstanding a negative assessment of the implications for certain marine sites, in accordance with regulation 68 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012) (“Inshore Regulations”) and regulation 36 of the Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1013) (“Offshore Regulations”).

Energy-Intensive Industry Electricity Support Payments and Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Laid before Parliament: 12 January 2026
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Energy-Intensive Industry Electricity Support Payments and Levy Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/409) (“the 2024 Regulations”). The 2024 Regulations entitle eligible energy-intensive businesses to electricity support payments in respect of network charging costs and set out how such payments are to be funded (through a levy on electricity suppliers).

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

Reference: 2026 No. 10
Laid before Parliament: 7 January 2026
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025 (the “2025 Regulations”). Regulation 56 of the 2025 Regulations requires persons holding a “heat network authorisation” to be members of a redress scheme in relation to complaints from domestic and certain business consumers in connection with the supply of heating, cooling or hot water. These Regulations clarify the business consumers to which that requirement relates.

Marine Recovery Funds Regulations 2025

Reference: 2025 No. 1230
Laid before Parliament: 25 November 2025
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations are made under section 292 of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) which enables the Secretary of State to make regulations providing for the establishment, operation and management of one or more marine recovery funds (“MRF”). An MRF is a fund into which payments may be made in respect of activities in connection with offshore wind electricity generation and out of which payments may be made towards expenditure on measures to compensate for adverse environmental effects of such activities (“measures”).

Clean Heat Market Mechanism (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Reference: 2025 No. 1208
Laid before Parliament: 20 November 2025
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations, which apply in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, amend the Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/81), which established the low-carbon heat scheme known as the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (“CHMM”).

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

Laid before Parliament: 30 October 2025
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Heat Networks (Market Framework) Regulations 2025 (the “2025 Regulations”). The 2025 Regulations provide for persons carrying on a “regulated activity” in relation to heat networks to be required to hold a “heat network authorisation” conferred by the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (“Ofgem”). Those with heat network authorisations are referred to as “authorised persons”. The amendments provide for the following:

Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage (Licensed Operators) Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2025

Reference: 2025 No. 1135
Laid before Parliament: 29 October 2025
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2004 Energy Act 2023 Insolvency Act 1986
SI explanatory text These Rules set out the procedure for the conduct of T&S administration proceedings in England and Wales. T&S administration is a special insolvency regime specifically created for companies holding licences under section 7 of the Energy Act 2023.

Code Manager Selection (Competitive) Regulations 2025

Reference: 2025 No. 658
Laid before Parliament: 9 June 2025
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations prescribe the procedure by which the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (the “Authority”) may make a determination on a competitive basis of the person who is to be selected to be the code manager in relation to a document designated by the Secretary of State under section 182(1)(a) of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52).

Nuclear Installations (Compensation for Nuclear Damage) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Laid before Parliament: 19 May 2025
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (c. 57) (NIA 1965), as amended by Schedule 22 to the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) (Schedule 22). Schedule 22 contains the amendments necessary to implement the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) in the United Kingdom. The CSC is an international nuclear third party liability treaty that aims to establish a minimum national compensation amount amongst the CSC contracting parties and to further increase the amount of compensation to be made available through public funds by the CSC contracting parties, should the national amount be insufficient to compensate the damage caused by a nuclear incident.

Oil and Gas Authority (Carbon Storage) (Retention of Information and Samples) Regulations 2025

Reference: 2025 No. 498
Laid before Parliament: 22 April 2025
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations set out the requirements for the retention of carbon storage information and carbon storage samples by holders of carbon storage licences granted by the Oil and Gas Authority (“licensees”). “Carbon storage information” and “carbon storage samples” are defined in section 107 of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) and cover information, and samples, acquired or created by, or on behalf of, licensees in carrying out activities under their carbon storage licences.

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

Laid before Parliament: 28 November 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision for regulating district heat networks (networks to which two or more buildings are connected) and communal heat networks (networks that operate in a single building, typically one divided into flats).

Clean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 21 November 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations are made under Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) and establish a low-carbon heat scheme known as the Clean Heat Market Mechanism. The scheme operates during the period from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2029, is divided into four “scheme years” and applies to the whole of the United Kingdom. Participants in the scheme (identified in regulation 9) are those undertakings, or groups of undertakings, which are the supplier (as defined in regulation 2(1)) of a number of fossil fuel boilers above the relevant threshold which are sold during a scheme year. Scheme participants have a low-carbon heat target for each scheme year. This target (regulation 12) is expressed in units and is based on the number of the scheme participant’s fossil fuel boiler sales on the UK market above the thresholds, unless the boiler is for export or for installation in a new build property. Participants must meet their low-carbon heat target by acquiring and surrendering to the scheme administrator (the Environment Agency) a number of certificates corresponding to the number of units in their target (regulation 25). There is provision for part of a low-carbon heat target to be carried forward to the following scheme year in regulation 27. A scheme participant which has insufficient certificates to meet its low-carbon heat target for a scheme year must make a payment to the scheme administrator in accordance with regulation 28.

Code Manager Selection Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 1081
Laid before Parliament: 31 October 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations, which apply in Great Britain, make provision for the selection by the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (the “Authority”) of a person to which a licence is to be granted to act as code manager in relation to a document designated by the Secretary of State under section 182(1)(b) of the Energy Act 2023.

Independent System Operator and Planner (Designation) Third Party Compensation Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 905
Laid before Parliament: 5 September 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations provide for the payment of compensation by the Secretary of State to third parties who suffer loss or damage in consequence of anything done by the Secretary of State in preparation for or in connection with the designation of a person (as Independent System Operator and Planner) under section 162(1) of the Energy Act 2023.

Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage (Determination of Turnover for Penalties) Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 30 July 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text Paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Energy Act 2023 (“the Act”) provides that where the economic regulator (the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority) is satisfied that a carbon dioxide transport and storage licence holder has contravened or is contravening any relevant condition or requirement imposed on the licence holder, the economic regulator may impose on the licence holder a penalty of such amount as is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case not exceeding 10 per cent of the licence holder’s turnover.

Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 640
Laid before Parliament: 15 May 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Energy Performance of Building Regulations 2012 (“the Principal Regulations”) in relation to data sharing.

Energy Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 13 May 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make amendments to primary, secondary and assimilated legislation in consequence of, or in connection with, the coming into force of certain provisions of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) (“the Act”).

Carbon Capture Revenue Support (Directions, Eligibility and Counterparty) Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 15 April 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision in connection with the offering by a carbon capture counterparty designated under section 67 of the Energy Act 2023 (“the Act”) of contracts for the capture of carbon dioxide by eligible carbon capture entities (referred to in the Act as “carbon capture revenue support contracts”). Such contracts must be offered following a direction from the Secretary of State pursuant to section 68(1) of the Act. A direction may only be given in favour of an “eligible carbon capture entity”.

Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Revenue Support (Directions and Counterparty) Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 15 April 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision in connection with the offering by a carbon dioxide transport and storage counterparty designated under section 59(1) of the Energy Act 2023 (“the Act”) of contracts for carbon dioxide transport and storage (referred to in section 59(2) of the Act as “carbon dioxide transport and storage revenue support contracts”). Such contracts must be offered following a direction from the Secretary of State pursuant to section 60(1) of the Act.

Independent System Operator and Planner Transfer Scheme Compensation (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 134
Laid before Parliament: 7 February 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations amend the Independent System Operator and Planner Transfer Scheme Compensation Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/125) (the “Compensation Regulations”), to correct an error in the commencement provision of the Compensation Regulations.

Independent System Operator and Planner Transfer Scheme Compensation Regulations 2024

Reference: 2024 No. 125
Laid before Parliament: 7 February 2024
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations, which apply in Great Britain, make provision regarding the compensation determination by an independent valuer under a transfer scheme relating to the establishment or functioning of the Independent System Operator and Planner established under Part 5 of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52, the “Act”).

Energy-Intensive Industry Electricity Support Payments and Levy Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 22 January 2024
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision setting out the entitlement of certain persons to electricity support payments and how such payments are to be funded (through a levy on electricity suppliers) and administered. Claims made in respect of any month will be funded through levy payments made a year later and then paid to claimants in the month after that.

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (Pension Scheme Amendment) Regulations 2024

Laid before Parliament: 19 December 2023
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text Regulation 3 designates the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and its subsidiary Magnox Ltd. as persons required to make changes to relevant nuclear pension schemes in order to introduce reform of those schemes in accordance with section 311(1) of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52). In accordance with section 311(7)(b) of that Act, scheme-specific changes, as defined in the Act, may be made in the case of a particular scheme on one occasion only.

Enterprise Act 2002 (Merger Fees and Determination of Turnover) (Amendment) and Energy Network Mergers (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 1185
Laid before Parliament: 9 November 2023
Procedure: Made negative
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Energy Act 2023 Enterprise Act 2002
SI explanatory text Part 2 of this Order amends the Enterprise Act 2002 (Merger Fees and Determination of Turnover) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1370) (“the 2003 Order”). The 2003 Order provides for merger fees to be payable in respect of mergers that are assessed under Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40) (“the Act”). It also provides for the determination of turnover of the company being taken over, both for the purposes of assessing whether the test is met for a relevant merger which may have to be referred, and for determining the fee payable.

Hydrogen Production Revenue Support (Directions, Eligibility and Counterparty) Regulations 2023

Laid before Parliament: 8 November 2023
Procedure: Draft affirmative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make provision in connection with the offering by a hydrogen production counterparty designated under section 65 of the Energy Act 2023 of contracts for the production of hydrogen by eligible low carbon hydrogen producers (referred to in the Act as “hydrogen production revenue support contracts”). Such contracts must be offered following a direction from the Secretary of State pursuant to section 66(1) of the 2023 Act. A direction may only be made in favour of an “eligible low carbon hydrogen producer”.

Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Reference: 2023 No. 1182
Laid before Parliament: 7 November 2023
Procedure: Made negative
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Enabling Acts
Energy Act 2023
SI explanatory text These Regulations make changes in relation to the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) which was established under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Regulations 2014 (the 2014 regulations). ESOS is an energy assessment scheme which requires large organisations in the UK and their corporate group to carry out an audit of the energy used by their buildings, industrial processes and transport in relation to four-year compliance periods. These Regulations introduce a number of changes intended to enhance and standardise ESOS reporting and publication requirements in relation to the compliance period which began on 6 December 2019, and subsequent compliance periods, with the aim of encouraging participants to take action to make energy savings.