Summary
3.Section 1 states that the principal purpose of the Act is to enhance the UK’s contribution to combating climate change. It is also aimed at alleviating fuel poverty and securing diverse and long-term energy supplies for the UK. This purpose does not have a substantive effect in its own right, but requires the provisions of the Act to be read in light of it.
4.The Act incorporates a wide variety of measures covering the role of local authorities and parish councils, microgeneration, energy efficiency, Building Regulations, dynamic demand technologies, community energy schemes and renewable heat, and electricity from renewable sources. It also imposes a number of reporting requirements on the Government in relation to greenhouse gas emissions, progress towards our energy efficiency target, progress on implementing the microgeneration strategy and steps taken to promote community energy projects and renewable heat.