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Energy Security Bill: factsheets

Factsheets relating to the Energy Security Bill (now known as the Energy Bill) introduced to Parliament on 6 July 2022.

From:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
6 July 2022
Last updated
1 September 2023 — See all updates

Documents

Energy Security Bill overarching factsheet

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Carbon dioxide transport and storage regulatory investment model

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Code governance

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Competition in onshore electricity networks

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Core fuel resilience

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Defining electricity storage

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Enabling accession to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Enabling the Hydrogen Village trial

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Energy Company Obligation buy-out mechanism

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Energy network special merger regime

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Ensuring the future of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Fusion regulation

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Future System Operator

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Great British Nuclear (added 9 May 2023)

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Heat networks regulation and zoning (updated 20 March 2023)

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Energy Security Bill Contextual Note: Heat Network Zoning and the Planning System

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Hydrogen and industrial carbon capture business models

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Hydrogen transport and storage business models (added 9 May 2023)

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Licensing of Geological Disposal Facility beneath the seabed

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Low-carbon heat scheme

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Multi-purpose interconnectors

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Network charging compensation scheme for energy intensive industries (added 9 May 2023)

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Nuclear decommissioning authority pensions reform

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Offshore oil and gas decommissioning cost recovery

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Offshore oil and gas (habitats assessment and emergency pollution planning and response)

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Offshore wind environmental improvement package

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Energy Security Bill Factsheet: Ofgem net zero duty (added 6 June 2023)

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: OGA change of control powers prior to a change of control event

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Power to make or change energy performance of buildings regulations (energy certificates) (updated 31 August 2023)

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Powers to strengthen the energy savings opportunity scheme

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Proposals to amend the regulatory framework for the final stages of nuclear decommissioning

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Recycled carbon fuels and nuclear derived fuels for transport

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Regulation of load control and energy smart appliances

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Retention, reporting and disclosure of carbon dioxide storage information and samples (added 9 May 2023)

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Energy Security Bill factsheet: Smart metering

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Details

1 September 2023 update

  • Energy Security Bill factsheet: Power to make or change energy performance of buildings regulations (energy certificates) updated to reflect tabled amendment.

The Energy Security Bill, now known as the Energy Bill, was introduced to Parliament on 6 July 2022 to deliver a cleaner, more affordable, and more secure energy system.

Documents related to the Energy Bill can be found on the Parliament website including:

  • Energy Bill
  • Explanatory Notes
  • Delegated Powers Memorandum
  • Impact Assessments

Please contact [email protected] for any queries.

Updates to this page

Published 6 July 2022
Last updated 1 September 2023 + show all updates

  1. Energy Security Bill factsheet: Power to make or change energy performance of buildings regulations (energy certificates) updated to reflect tabled amendment.

  2. Added new factsheet: Energy Security Bill factsheet: Ofgem net zero duty.

  3. Factsheets added on GBN, the network charging compensation scheme for EIIs, hydrogen transport and storage business models & retention, reporting and disclosure of CO2 storage information and samples.

  4. Heat networks regulation and zoning factsheet updated.

  5. Energy Security Bill factsheet: Recycled carbon fuels and nuclear derived fuels for transport published. Energy Security Bill overarching factsheet updated with information about deployment of offshore wind and the decarbonisation of UK transport.

  6. The Energy Security Bill factsheet: Default tariff (price cap) has been withdrawn. The government has removed the Energy Price Cap measure from the Energy Security Bill. The measure has been superseded by the amendments to the Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Act 2018 made by the Energy Prices Act 2022.

  7. Nuclear decommissioning authority pensions reform factsheet frequently asked questions updated.

  8. Updated to reflect Government amendment: powers to strengthen the energy savings opportunity scheme.

  9. First published.

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