Clause 4 - National targets for microgeneration
Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill
3:30 pm
Joe Benton (Bootle, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: clause 6 stand part.
Amendment No. 29, in clause 11, page 6, leave out lines 15 to 17.
New clause 5—National targets for microgeneration—
‘(1)The Secretary of State must, during the period beginning with 1st November 2008 and ending with 31st March 2009—
(a)designate one or more national microgeneration targets, and
(b)publish a statement of that fact together with a copy of the target or targets.
(2)But subsection (1) does not apply unless on 1st November 2008 the Secretary of State considers that it would be appropriate to designate one or more targets under that subsection.
(3)For the purposes of this section, a national microgeneration target is a target in respect of—
(a)the number of microgeneration systems installed in England and Wales, and
(b)the number of electricity microgenerating systems installed in Scotland,
as at a date specified in the target (“the target date”).
(4)The matters to which the Secretary of State must have regard in determining whether subsection (1) applies include, in particular—
(a)the number of microgeneration systems installed in England and Wales,
(b)the number of electricity microgenerating systems installed in Scotland,
(c)the strategy published under section 82 of the Energy Act 2004 (c.20) (microgeneration), and
(d)the results of any research carried out into the effect that designating a target under subsection (1) could be expected to have on the number of microgeneration systems that are installed in England and Wales, and the number of electricity microgenerating systems that are installed in Scotland, by the target date.
(5)If a target is designated under subsection (1), the Secretary of State must take reasonable steps to secure that the target is met.
(6)At any time before the target date, the Secretary of State may review the target and, if he considers it appropriate to do so, revise the target.
(7)If under subsection (6) the Secretary of State revises a target—
(a)he must publish a statement of that fact together with a copy of the revised target, and
(b)the revised target is treated for the purposes of subsection (5) and section (National microgeneration targets: modification of section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003) as the target designated under subsection (1).
(8)In this section—
“electricity microgenerating system” means a microgeneration system for generating electricity;
“microgeneration system” means any plant or system of plant for generating electricity or producing heat—
(j)which, in generating electricity or (as the case may be) producing heat, relies wholly or mainly on a source of energy or a technology mentioned in subsection (7) of section 82 of the Energy Act 2004 (c.20), and
(k)whose capacity to generate electricity or (as the case may be) to produce heat does not exceed the capacity mentioned in subsection (8) of that section;
“plant” includes any equipment, apparatus or appliance.’.
And the following amendment thereto: (a), at end insert—
‘(5A)If the Secretary of State does not designate a target under subsection (1) he shall publish forthwith a statement of his reasons.’.
New clause 6—National microgeneration targets: modification of section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003—
(2)Section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003 (c.30) applies in relation to every relevant sustainable energy report as if after subsection (1B) there were inserted—
“(1BA)The report must also include such information as the Secretary of State considers appropriate about things done during the reporting period for the purpose of meeting any target designated under section (National targets for microgeneration) of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2005 (national targets for microgeneration).”,
and as if, in subsection (1C), for “subsection (1A)” there were substituted “subsections (1A) and (1BA)”.
(3)For the purposes of this section—
(a)a sustainable energy report is a relevant sustainable energy report in relation to a target designated under subsection (1) of section (National targets for microgeneration) if the reporting period to which the report relates includes the period, or any part of the period, to which the target relates,
(b)a target designated under subsection (1) of that section relates to the period beginning when it is designated and ending with the target date (within the meaning of that section),
(c)“reporting period”, in relation to a sustainable energy report, has the meaning given by section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003 (c.30), and
(d)“sustainable energy report” means a sustainable energy report which is required to be published under that section.’.
New clause 7—Reports under section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003: microgeneration—
(a)omit “and” at the end of paragraph (b), and
(b)at the end of paragraph (c) insert “; and
(d)things done during that period for the purpose of implementing the strategy for the promotion of microgeneration in Great Britain published under section 82 of the Energy Act 2004.”.’.