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Energy Efficiency Obligations in the UK John Mason Senior Manager of Customers Policy and Regulation 1 Title of Presentation 1 January 2014 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved

EDF ENERGY EDF Energy is the UK's largest producer of low-carbon electricity, and one of the largest energy suppliers with activities throughout the energy chain. Our interests include nuclear, coal and gas-fired electricity generation, renewables and energy supply to end users. We continue to invest in a diverse mix of generation and supply technologies to meet the needs of our customers for secure, affordable low-carbon energy. High quality, innovative, engineering and physical sciences research, and highly skilled researchers are both critical to our mission - to be a responsible long-term energy business, trusted by customers and powering a healthy environment. Our people focus on delivering against our customer commitments of providing fair value, better service & simplicity. We have over five million electricity and gas customer accounts in the UK, including residential and business users. The largest supplier of electricity to British business with a ~20% market share including 4 of the 5 largest business contracts available within the UK. B2B markets include large energy intensive and multi sites businesses right down to the smallest micro businesses. 2 Introducing EDF Energy July 2014 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved

Overview of Energy Efficiency Obligations Energy suppliers in the UK have been subject to obligations regarding energy efficiency since 1994, focussed on the domestic market. It has been confirmed obligations will continue for energy suppliers until 2022. All obligations have been focussed on retail arm of suppliers All obligations focus on household sector only, mainly home improvement CESP Sept 2009 Dec 2012 ECO 1 Jan 2013 March 2015 EEC 1 2002 2005 EEC 2 2005 2008 CERT April 2008 March 2011 CERT Extension April 2011 Dec 2012 ECO2 April 2015 March 2017 2002 March 2005 March 2008 Sept April 2011 Dec 2012 2020 and beyond 2009 3 Public Sector Housing Presentation 1 January 2012 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved.

Energy Obligations from 1994 - to date Past learning's There have been a range of obligations on energy suppliers from 1994. They have ranged in length from two - four year schemes. At first targets were set for electricity suppliers only and then after the first scheme extended to include gas suppliers. Measures include: - Simple wall insulation - Complex wall insulation - Low energy lighting - Heating measures - Draught proofing for windows - Renewables

Past learning's From April 2008 to December 2011: CERT was the main policy driver for improving the energy efficiency of dwelling in Great Britain What CERT delivered: About 70% of the simple insulation measures delivered were private households. About 30% for social homes or in combination with a national Government scheme. CERT in numbers: (as per CERT report to Secretary of State published 01/05/13) Suppliers delivered savings of nearly 300 MtCO2. About 40% went to poor homes, over 120 MtCO2. DECC estimated that the cost of the programme was about 3.9 billion (in 2010-11 prices)

Past From April 2009 to December 2012: the CESP scheme targeted vulnerable customers in the most deprived areas across Great Britain What CESP delivered: Over 150,000 households had at least one energy efficiency measure installed. Included over 75,000 complex insulation measures. And replacing over 40,000 old heating systems. CESP in numbers: (as per CESP report to Secretary of State published 01/05/13) Energy companies achieved over 16Mt CO2, almost 85% of the target. Energy companies were required to achieve an overall target of 19.25 million lifetime tonnes of carbon dioxide (Mt CO2) by 31 December 2012.

From 2013 to 2017: Energy Company Obligation (ECO) ECO has three different schemes to focus on different measures and different customers: 1. Carbon Saving Obligation (CERO): To provide funding for complex insulation measures. This is for those that can afford more expensive measures to buy these with support from a Government support scheme to help it be more cost effective. 2. Carbon Saving Communities Obligation (CSCO): To provide simple and complex insulation and heating measures to people living in the bottom 15% of the UK's most deprived areas including rural areas. It is expected it will particularly benefit the social housing sector. 3. Affordable Warmth Obligation (HHCRO): To provide heating and simple insulation improvements to poor households (not social housing). This leads to a lot of complexity for administration for both supplier and delivery partners. This increases costs (circa 200m) and can lead to a poor customer journey. However, this does allow a lot of political direction over the outcomes to meet wider carbon and social objectives.

UK Energy Efficiency Obligations Supplier Costs 9 Title of Presentation 1 January 2014 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved

Ofgem Summary of the Energy Companies Obligation (ECO 1) January 2013 to March 2015

Obligated parties Obligated parties: - Electricity or gas suppliers - With more than 250,000 domestic customers - and provide over 400GW of electricity, or over 2,000GW of gas, to domestic customers are obligated under the scheme. Today, 11 energy companies have to meet ECO obligation (out of 30 suppliers in total). In case of non compliance, suppliers can be fined by Ofgem, which can include a penalty of 10% of financial turnover of the company. Costs: Its essential that cost remains competitive for all parties involved Costs are passed on to customers through tariff Cost are widely available in the public domain and are broadcast by Ofgem/DECC for external scrutiny

Energy efficiency obligations: EDF strategy To date EDF Energy alone (with circa 10% of obligations) has made a positive impact to over 840,000 homes and reduced carbon emissions by over 20m tonnes. EDF strategy: act in the best interest of our customers while meeting highest level of quality and safety EDF will always make sure it meets the energy saving obligation EDF will try to realize savings at the lowest costs: each utility will raise the energy price to cover the additional costs of EERS: so the less costs, the lower the energy price As a result of the above strategy: EDF will support poor consumers with very attractive (or free) support but will charge richer consumers to their ability in order to reduce total costs. 12 Title of Presentation 1 January 2014 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved

Energy efficiency obligations: EDF partners EDF always outsources the EE activities (but if the EERS would have been announced as long term strategy, EDF might have considered setting up its own service company, e.g. ESCO) EDF usually develops tenders, asking service companies or installation companies to give them offers for specific EE activities The service companies or installation companies will actively find EE savings (e.g. home insulation) and report savings to EDF EDF has its own specialist staff carrying out quality control and sometimes asks specialist experts EDF sends energy saving reports to the regulator, the regulator may perform random checks to verify the energy savings 13 Title of Presentation 1 January 2014 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved

Lessons learnt from delivery of obligations A government scheme (Green Deal) working in conjunction with the Energy Company Obligation was an innovative new approach to encourage the uptake of measures. The Government scheme and ECO working together created a complex, uncertain and expensive delivery framework: overlapping energy efficiency policies should be avoided Customers needed to be interested but it was too expensive so did not interest customers. In summary an energy efficiency offering needs to be simple, easy to administer and affordable and interesting to consumers. Also include a consumer education campaign to more of the population to generate interest and increase understanding. 15 Public Sector Housing Presentation 1 January 2012 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved.

Lessons learnt for future policy and strategy EDF Energy believes that a holistic and longer term strategic direction to home energy efficiency policy will provide a more effective and sustainable delivery approach. A long term strategy will help support poor households and enable those that can pay. EDF Energy supports the provision of free energy efficiency measures to the most vulnerable in society. To help those that can afford to pay, offer financial incentives and working with regulation to encourage those that are able to pay. A long term holistic government strategy will provide the framework to achieve change. 16 Public Sector Housing Presentation 1 January 2012 EDF Energy plc. All rights Reserved.

Several government policies target energy efficiency to deliver both carbon savings and help the poor UK policy: ECO affordable warmth ECO carbon saving ECO carbon saving communities Winter Fuel Payments Cold weather payments Warm Home Discount (WHD) Description: Energy suppliers required to make a specified energy bill reduction to poor households (excludes those in social housing). Achieved by fullysubsidised heating and insulation Energy suppliers required to make a specified amount of carbon savings in households by delivering energy efficiency. Expected to be predominantly complex insulation Energy suppliers required to help reduce those living in deprived areas and the fuel poor in rural areas using Insulation (simple and complex wall insulation and loft insulation) A scheme set up to help elderly people pay towards the cost of fuel bills and could be as much as 300. To qualify for the payment claimants must be over 60years old Payments to recipients of welfare benefits during periods of very cold weather (Nov. to Mar.) A 4 year scheme where domestic energy suppliers are mandated by Government to provide direct and indirect support arrangements to fuel poor customers Target: Improving thermal efficiency Improving thermal efficiency Improving thermal efficiency Improving incomes Improving incomes Reducing energy costs Fuel Poor specific: Fully means tested No direct link to income Low income communities No direct link to income Fully means tested Fully means tested Annual investment: Cost to domestic energy bill per annum: 365m 485m 192m c. 1,620m c. 70m c. 310m ~ 13 ~ 18 ~ 7 Treasury funded Treasury funded ~ 11 Notes: Funding for ECO & WHD comes from participating energy suppliers which they will pass on to energy customers through their energy bills, The above figures are calculated by: Expected annual policy cost divided by 27.4million UK households. Policies targeted at poor households are most likely to result in a reduction in those struggling to pay energy bills however this varies on cost of energy bills and measure impact. [Source: John Hills Final Report of the Fuel Poverty Review, NERA ECO Final Report November 2012, ECO data June 2015