The Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 (c 19) is an Act of the

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which aims to boost the number of heat and electricity

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installations in the

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, so helping to cut

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and reduce

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. The Act was piloted through the

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as a

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, MP. The Rt Hon

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MP, a well known opponent of Private Members' Bills who often fillibustered them in Parliament, died during the passage of this bill through Parliament, after having prolonged the debate during

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and

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for a number of days.

Microgeneration in the United Kingdom

Microgeneration Microgeneration is the small-scale production of heat or electric power from a "low carbon source," as an alternative or supplement to traditional centralized grid-connected power. Microgeneration technologies include small-scale wind turbin ...

technologies are seen as having considerable potential by the Government. Microgeneration involves the local production of electricity by homes and businesses from low-energy sources including small scale

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s and

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installations. The Government's own microgeneration strategy was launched in March 2006 was seen as a disappointment by many commentators. In contrast, the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act has been viewed as a positive step.

The Act

The principal measures in the act are to: * require the Secretary of State (

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) to report annually on

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during the year plus steps taken to cut them; * require

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to take into account the content of a new 'energy measures report' that the Secretary of State will be required to publish within one year from the signing of the Act; * require the Secretary of State to set national microgeneration targets no later than 31 March 2009; * require the Secretary of State to expand the ''annual reports on progress towards sustainable energy aims'' (under the Sustainable Energy Act 2003), to include: **progress in meeting the microgeneration targets; **progress in meeting the target (under the

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) for the ''energy efficiency of residential accommodation in

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''; **progress in meeting the target (under the Housing Act 2004) for the ''emissions of carbon dioxide in England''; **progress in meeting the target (under the Housing Act 2004) for the ''number of households in which one or more persons are living in

''; **things done to promote community energy projects; **things done to promote the use of heat from renewable sources. * give the Secretary of State the power to impose a duty on energy companies to buy energy from microgeneration schemes, if the industry fails to create a voluntary scheme within one year. * introduce a statutory review that, it is hoped, may change

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orders to allow certain domestic microgeneration without the need for

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. A consultation period on the proposed changes ends on 27 June 2007. * make changes to the Building Regulations to: ** include microgeneration within their scope; ** increasing to two years the time limit for prosecuting contraventions of the Building Regulations relating to energy use, energy conservation or carbon emissions; ** require the Secretary of State to report on compliance with these aspects of the Building Regulations and steps proposed to increase compliance. * change the energy efficiency provisions of the

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and the

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to carbon emission based targets; * require the Secretary of State to report on the contribution that can be made by dynamic demand technology to cutting greenhouse gas emissions; * require the Secretary of State to promote community energy projects; * permit parish councils and

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s to incur expenditure (under the

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) to encourage or promote microgeneration,

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production,

fuels, and energy efficiency measures; * give a duty to the Secretary of State to promote the use of heat from renewable sources; * modify the

to enable

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to be issued to a wider range of people and organisations; * modify the

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with the aim of capping charges for the transmission of renewable electricity produced in the

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, so reducing production costs and encouraging

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and

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Microgeneration technologies

For the purposes of the Act, microgeneration technologies include: *

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s *

fuel cell A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity through a pair of redox reactions. Fuel cells are different from most batteries in requ ...

s *

photovoltaics Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...

*water (including

and

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) *

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* geothermal sources * combined heat and power systems

References

External links

*
Explanatory notes
to the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006.
Planning Policy Statement 22 (PPS22) on renewable energy
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Microgeneration in the United Kingdom

The Act

Microgeneration technologies

See also

References

External links