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Secretary Edward Miliband

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Page  7,  line  5  [Clause  8],  leave out ‘to scheme customers’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

13

Page  7,  line  11  [Clause  8],  at end insert—

‘( )	benefits to be provided in the form of goods or services.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

14

Page  7,  line  29  [Clause  8],  leave out ‘to scheme customers’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

15

Page  9,  line  39  [Clause  11],  leave out from beginning to end of line 47 and insert—

‘( )	Provision included by virtue of the power in subsection (1) in licences, or in a

document or agreement relating to licences’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

16

Page  10,  line  1  [Clause  11],  at end insert—

‘( )	Without prejudice to section [Licence modifications etc](4), provision included

by virtue of that power in a document or agreement relating to licences’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

17

Page  10,  line  9  [Clause  11],  leave out subsections (5) to (7).

Secretary Edward Miliband

18

Page  10,  line  22  [Clause  12],  leave out subsections (1) and (2).

Secretary Edward Miliband

19

Page  12,  line  7  [Clause  14],  leave out ‘7A’ and insert ‘7A(1)’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

20

Page  12,  line  20,  leave out Clause 15.

Secretary Edward Miliband

21

Page  16,  line  16  [Clause  18],  leave out ‘by virtue of’ and insert ‘under’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

22

Page  16,  line  21  [Clause  18],  at end insert—

‘(8A)

Before making modifications under subsection (1), the Secretary of State must

consult—

(a)	holders of licences under section 6(1)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989,

(b)	the Authority, and

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(c)	such other persons as the Secretary of State thinks it is appropriate to

consult.

(8B)	Subsection (8A) may be satisfied by consultation before, as well as by

consultation after, this Act comes into force.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

23

Page  16,  line  22  [Clause  18],  leave out subsection (9).

Secretary Edward Miliband

24

Page  17,  line  8,  leave out Clause 19.

Secretary Edward Miliband

25

Page  17,  line  35,  leave out Clause 20.

Secretary Edward Miliband

26

Page  19,  line  16  [Clause  22],  leave out subsection (10).

Secretary Edward Miliband

27

Page  19,  line  38  [Clause  23],  at end insert—

‘(d)	vary any date by which the penalty, or any part of it, is required to be

paid.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

28

Page  19,  line  39  [Clause  23],  leave out subsection (4).

Secretary Edward Miliband

29

Page  20,  line  14  [Clause  23],  leave out subsection (10).

Secretary Edward Miliband

30

Page  21,  line  24  [Clause  25],  leave out subsection (8) and insert—

‘(8)	Before making a modification under subsection (7), the Secretary of State must

consult—

(a)	holders of licences under section 6(1)(a) of the Electricity Act 1989,

(b)	the Authority, and

(c)	such other persons as the Secretary of State thinks it is appropriate to

consult.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

31

Page  22,  line  38  [Clause  27],  leave out subsections (8) and (9).

Secretary Edward Miliband

32

Page  25,  line  22,  leave out Clause 31.

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33

Page  27,  line  15  [Clause  36],  after ‘Part’ insert ‘, apart from section [Consequential

amendments] (and the Schedule),’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

34

Page  27,  line  16  [Clause  36],  leave out ‘Sections 18 to 25’ and insert ‘The

following provisions’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

35

Page  27,  line  17  [Clause  36],  at end insert—

‘(a)	sections 18 to 25;

(b)	paragraphs 7 and 8 of the Schedule (and, so far as relating to them,

paragraphs 1 and 5 of the Schedule and section [Consequential

amendments]).’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

36

Title,  line  2,  after ‘technology;’ insert ‘to make provision about reports on

decarbonisation of electricity generation and development and use of carbon capture and

storage technology;’.

Advice on benefits of new or under-utilised technologies

Greg Clark

Mr Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

NC14

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	For the purpose of enabling him to assess the benefits of new or under-utilised

technologies in dealing with fuel poverty the Secretary of State must request the

advice of the bodies specified in subsection (2) on the following technologies—

(a)	passive flue gas heat recovery systems (“PFGHR systems”),

(b)	voltage optimisation technologies,

(c)	standby, down-powering technologies,

(d)	dynamic demand technologies,

(e)	district network connection technologies, and

(f)	such other technologies as he thinks appropriate.

(2)	The bodies referred to in subsection (1) are—

(a)	the Energy Saving Trust;

(b)	the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group; and

(c)	the Sustainable Development Commission.

(3)	A request for advice made pursuant to subsection (1) may also include a request

for advice as to how those technologies can assist in combating climate change.

(4)	The Climate Change Committee must within 12 months consider and produce a

Report on the ways in which the technologies specified in subsection (1) can

assist in dealing with fuel poverty and climate change.

(5)	In the section—

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“PFGHR systems” means technology that can use the waste heat from

condensing boilers in order to heat water;

“voltage optimisation technologies” are technologies that lower the input of

voltage to electrical equipment from that at which electricity is currently

generated;

“standby down-powering technologies” are methods by which electrical

equipment is turned off, or reduced, during periods of non-use;

“dynamic demand” has the same meaning as in the Climate Change and

Sustainable Energy Act 2006;

“district network connection technologies” are technologies that enable

consumers to link up lower cost and lower polluting energy generation.’.

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Revised 11 February 2010