Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much each of the Big Six energy companies allocated to the Energy Company Obligation in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme started in January 2013 and requires obligated energy suppliers to install energy efficiency and heating measures to people’s homes in England, Scotland and Wales.
ECO is funded at £640 million per annum (2017 prices, rising with inflation). At the start of each scheme, suppliers have been set targets (measured in either carbon emission reductions or bill saving reductions) that they need to achieve.
The table below sets out which suppliers have been obligated under the scheme between 2013 and 2018. There are currently fifteen obligated suppliers. More suppliers are likely to be obligated under ECO3, starting later this year, as the obligation thresholds will be lowered from 250,000 customer accounts to 200,000 and then 150,000.
The report on how obligated suppliers met their ECO1 targets is available at:
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/energy-companies-obligation-eco1-final-report
The report on how obligated suppliers met their ECO2 targets is available at:
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/energy-company-obligation-eco2-csco-final-report
Energy Company Obligation 2013 – 2018: Obligated Energy Suppliers
2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 |
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British Gas | British Gas | British Gas | British Gas | British Gas |
EDF Energy Customers plc | Co-operative Energy | Co-operative Energy | Co-operative Energy | Co-operative Energy |
EON | EDF Energy | EDF Energy | EDF Energy | Economy Energy |
First Utility Ltd | EON | EON | EON | EDF Energy |
Npower | First Utility Ltd | First Utility Ltd | Extra Energy | EON |
Scottish Power Energy Retail Limited | Npower | Npower | First Utility Ltd | Extra Energy |
SSE | Ovo | Ovo | Npower | First Utility |
| Scottish Power Energy Retail Limited | Scottish Power Energy Retail Limited | Ovo | Flow Energy |
| SSE | SSE | Scottish Power Energy Retail Limited | Npower |
| The Utility Warehouse | The Utility Warehouse | SSE | Ovo |
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| Utilita | The Utility Warehouse | Scottish Power Energy Retail Limited |
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| Utilita | Spark Energy |
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| SSE |
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| The Utility Warehouse |
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| Utilita |