Part 11: Energy Savings Opportunity Schemes Section 255: Application of energy savings opportunity schemes
The section enables regulations to set out the application of an ESOS scheme, including in terms of which undertakings it applies to, and what the territorial application of such a scheme may be. This section also enables regulations to make provision for situations where responsibility for energy consumption under such a scheme may need to be determined.
	Subsection (2) enables regulations to set out how multiple participants (defined by section 266) may be treated as a single participant and require obligations on one participant to be treated as if imposed on another. This would allow the existing arrangements for corporate groups under the current regulations to be maintained.
	Subsections (3) and (4) set out that powers under Part 11 relate to energy wholly consumed in the UK or an offshore area, or to energy partly consumed in those areas (for example in the case of energy used by transport which begins in the United Kingdom and ends outside the United Kingdom) but that regulations may also set out particular circumstances under which energy consumed outside the UK and offshore areas may also be covered by the regulations.
	Subsection (5) stipulates that the provisions in Part 11 apply to all greenhouse gas emissions resulting from energy consumption to which Part 11 applies, whether they occur in the UK, an offshore area, or elsewhere.
	Subsection (6) allows for regulations to set out how energy consumption is to be attributed to participants, including in certain specific situations such as where energy is consumed by someone that a participant has control or influence over.
	Subsection (7) sets out the meaning of ‘offshore area’ for the purposes of subsections (3) to (5).