Energy and Climate Change CommitteeWritten evidence submitted by Ofgem
In answer to your questions:
1. A summary of Ofgem’s responsibilities in relation to the Green Deal and/or the Energy Company Obligation
Suppliers’ licences have been modified by the Secretary of State to include conditions on the collection and remittance of Green Deal charges to the finance providers. We are responsible for enforcing these conditions as we are for any licence condition. We are also responsible for enforcing part of the Green Deal Arrangements Agreement between suppliers and providers. As you know, none of this is Ofgem policy; it is all DECC policy.
With regard to the ECO, Ofgem will serve as the Administrator for ECO from the commencement of the scheme to 31 March 2015. We will allocate the qualifying suppliers a proportion of the overall targets on an annual basis, determined by each supplier’s share of the gas and electricity supply market.
Our other duties include:
Monitoring supplier progress.
Reporting to the Secretary of State.
Fraud, audit and compliance.
Final determination on whether a supplier has achieved their obligations.
2. Details of any data that Ofgem is required to collect in relation to the Green Deal/ECO and whether this data will be available to DECC and/or the public
We are collecting information on the measures that are installed under ECO but we have no part in the monitoring of Green Deal.
The information we collect relates to a number of areas:
Identifying the measure installed.
Its eligibility to be counted against a supplier’s ECO.
The carbon or cost saving attributable to the measure.
To assess the information and have confidence of its accuracy we will also collect:
The location it is installed in;
whether it was delivered to a member of the affordable warmth group;
how the carbon or cost saving was derived and information to allow us to qualify this;
the standards of installation; and
whether a Green Deal was involved and whether the measure was purchased by a supplier via the brokerage.
We are required to report this information to DECC as a summary of suppliers’ progress against their obligations. We will look to provide high level information to the public where it is not commercially sensitive or doesn’t impact on individuals privacy.
In addition to the summary of suppliers progress we are working with DECC to arrange measure level information to inform future policy decisions.
3. Details of any other data that Ofgem intends to collect in relation to Green Deal/ECO and whether this data will be available to DECC and/or the public
DECC have asked us to collect some additional data to help them to assess the cost of ECO and whether the scheme is successfully reaching vulnerable customers. We are unlikely to make this information available publically as cost data will have commercial sensitivity and customer groupings will contain elements that will fall under the data protection act.
You might also find the following two factsheets (recently updated on our website) useful:
http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Media/FactSheets/Documents1/household-bills.pdf
http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Media/FactSheets/Documents1/CERT%20and%20CESP%20factsheet_web.pdf
February 2013