SI 2023/1182. The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023.  Comes into force 29th November.  These Regulations amend Regulations 4 (compliance periods), 8 (Notification System), 10 (publication of information), 21 (role of lead assessor and estimates), 25 (identification of areas of significant energy consumption) of The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/1643)  and adds new sections on calculations related to organisational purposes and the requirement on all participants to produce an ESOS action plan.  The amendment also updates Schedules 2, 3 and 5.

SI 2023/1170. The Environment Act 2021 (Commencement No. 7) Regulations 2023.  Comes into force on 3rd November.  Subsections 1 and 2 of Section 82 (monitoring quality of water potentially affected by discharges), Section 98 (biodiversity gain as condition of planning permission), Section 100 (biodiversity gain site register) and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 14 (biodiversity gain as condition of planning permission).  Comes into force 30th November. Section 115 of the Act (local highway authorities in England to consult before felling street trees).

A 2023 c.53. Energy Act 2023. Comes into force as listed in Section 334 of the Act. This Act covers the licensing of carbon dioxide transport and storage (Part 1),  the capture and storage of carbon dioxide and the production and transport of hydrogen (Part 2), the licencing of hydrogen pipeline project (Part 3), new technologies including low carbon heat schemes and hydrogen grid conversion trials (Part 4), the functions of the  Independent System Operator And Planner (Part 5), governance of gas and electricity industry codes (Part 6), market reform and consumer protection (Part 7), heat networks (Part 8), energy smart appliances and load control (Part 9), energy performance of premises (Part 10), energy saving schemes (Part  11), core fuel sector resilience (Part 12), offshore wind electricity generation, oil and gas (Part 13) and civil nuclear sites (Part 14).  The Act comprises three hundred and thirty-five sections supported by twenty-two schedules extends for four hundred and ninety-three pages.

Coming into force. On 27th October. In Chapter 1 of Part 2—sections 56; 57 and 58, (relating to hydrogen production revenue support contracts and a hydrogen production counterparty; sections 65 and 66; section 81(1) to (3), so far as relating to a designation under section 65; section 83 (relating to hydrogen production revenue support contracts and a hydrogen production counterparty); sections 85 and 88 and section 129. Chapter 1 of Part 4; sections 154, 157 to 159. Part 5— sections 169 and 170; section 174 (including Schedule 9), section 175, section 178(2) and sections 180 and 181 section 203 (including Schedule 15), section 204 (including Schedule 16), section 215, Part 8, Part 11 (except sections 264 and 265) sections 307, 308 and 309 and Part 14 – Chapters 3 and 4 of Part 14.

December 27th Part 1, Chapters 1 to 3, 5 and 6 of Part 2, so far as not already in force by virtue of subsection (2), Part 3; sections 153, 155, 160, 202 and 211 to 214, Part 10; sections 264 and 265, Part 13 chapter 1 section 306