Department of Energy and Climate Change

This page lists formal written consultations that have closed and the Government has responded to.

Listed by date:
 

• 20 November 2009 - 15 January 2010: Consultation on the proposed changes to the publication of monthly coal statistics

• 10 November 2009 - 8 December 2009: Consultation on proposal to transfer the existing section 37 Electricity Act 1989 exemptions for overhead power line consents to the Planning Act 2008 regime
• 15 July 2009 - 15 October 2009:  Consultation on Renewable Electricity Financial Incentives
• 24 June 2009 - 16 September 2009: Consultation on transposition of EU Directive (2009/29/EC) revising EU Directive (2003/87/EC) and relating to greenhouse gas emissions data and national implementation measures
• 17 June 2009 - 9 September 2009: A framework for the development of clean coal
• 12 June 2009 - 4 September 2009: Proposals for a future exemptions regime under The Radioactive Substances Act 1993 and The Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010
• 11 May 2009 - 3 August 2009: Consultation on smart metering for electricity and gas
• 06 May 2009 - 29 July 2009: Environmental Permitting Programme - Consultation on government guidance
• 23 April 2009 - 22 June 2009: Guidance on carbon capture readiness and applications under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989: a consultation
• 12 March 2009 - 4 June 2009: Consultation on the draft order to implement the Carbon Reduction Commitment
• 26 February 2009 - 21 May 2009: Consultation on the term ‘carbon neutral’: its definition and recommendations for good practice
• 4 March 2009 - 14 May 2009: Consultation on transposition of EU Directive (EC/2008/101) to include aviation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
• 16 February 2009 - 11 May 2009: Consultation on the second phase of Environmental Permitting Programme (EPP2)
• 12 February 2009 - 8 May 2009: Heat and Energy Saving Strategy (HES) consultation (responses and Government's initial response)
  Heat and Energy Saving Consultation Roadshows
  Alongside the HES consultation, we commissioned three separate pieces of work as part of our Big Energy Shift dialogue. The reports are published below:
  Dialogue with households from nine communities in England, Wales and N Ireland undertaken by Ipsos Mori
  Dialogue with the public sector undertaken by the Sustainable Development Commission
  Dialogue with small and medium business enterprises undertaken by Business in the Community
• 12 February 2009 - 8 May 2009: Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP)
• 23 March 2009 - 6 May 2009:  Government response to offshore electricity transmission: a further joint Ofgem/DECC regulatory policy update - final consultation document
• 26 January 2009 - 23 April 2009: Severn Tidal Power Phase One consultation
• 12 February 2009 - 23 April 2009: Consultation on the proposed Offshore Gas Storage and Gas Unloading Licensing Scheme 
• 26 January 2009 - 22 April 2009: Consultation on UK Offshore Energy SEA Environmental Report
• 12 February - 14 April 2009: Consultation on proposed amendments to the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target 2008-2011 
• 17 December 2008 – 25 March 2009: Consultation on the Nuclear Industry Association's application to justify new nuclear power stations
• 28 October 2008 - 19 January 2009: Carbon Units, the net carbon account and carbon accounting
• 21 November 2008 - 9 January 2009: Consultation on offshore electricity transmission: a further joint Ofgem/DECC regulatory policy update
• 22 July 2008 - 11 November 2008: Towards a nuclear national policy statement: Consultation on the Strategic Siting Assessment process and siting criteria for new nuclear power stations in the UK
• 23 May 2007 - 10-October 2007: The future of nuclear power: the role of nuclear power in a low carbon UK economy
• 26 June 2008 - 26 September 2008: The UK Renewable Energy Strategy 
• 26 June 2008 - 26 September 2008: Social and environmental guidance to the gas and electricity markets authority
• 30 June 2008 - 22 September 2008: Towards Carbon Capture and Storage