Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012
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Chapter 4 Energy efficiency | ||
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Definitions (Chapter 4). |
10.— In this Chapter— | |
“class of energy supplier” means— | ||
(a) all energy distributors and retail energy companies, | ||
(b) energy distributors or retail energy companies doing business in— | ||
(i) a particular form of energy, or | ||
(ii) a particular region or locality, | ||
(c) all energy distributors or all retail energy companies that— | ||
(i) distribute or sell a volume of energy, or | ||
(ii) employ a number of full time staff, or the equivalent, | ||
or | ||
(d) any of the above which have achieved a measure, standards, conditions, threshold or target set out in an energy efficiency notice; | ||
“distribution system operator” means the holder of a licence to supply— | ||
(a) electricity, granted under section 14(1)(g) of the Act of 1999, or | ||
(b) gas, granted under section 16(1)(d) of the Act of 2002; | ||
“energy distributor” means a person, other than a distribution system operator or transmission system operator, that transports energy with a view to its delivery to final customers and to distribution stations that sell energy to final customers and subject to the foregoing, includes energy undertakings; | ||
“energy efficiency notice” means a notice under section 11 (3); | ||
“energy supplier” means an energy distributor, distribution system operator or retail energy sales company; | ||
“energy undertaking” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 (as amended by section 22 of the Act of 2002) of the Act of 1999; | ||
“Fund” means Energy Efficiency Fund established under section 14 ; | ||
“Minister” means Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; | ||
“small energy supplier” has the meaning assigned to it in Regulation 2 of the European Communities (Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 542 of 2009 ); | ||
“voluntary agreement” means an agreement established under section 12 . |