Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Environment Directorate: Climate,...

The series includes files on the set up of the Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECA) scheme to promote carbon reduction by enabling a business to claim 100% first-year capital allowances on their spending on qualifying plant and machinery. There were three schemes for ECAs: energy-saving plant and machinery, low carbon dioxide emission cars and natural gas; and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure and water conservation plant and machinery. Sustainable Energy Policy (SEP) oversaw the plant and machinery programme including its set-up and the transfer of administrative functions to the Carbon Trust.

Also sponsored by the Department were the Energy Saving Trust (EST) and Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP). In 2005 the Office for National Statistics reclassified WRAP as a public body which led to a review of the Trusts both by ONS, Treasury and the Department. Files on the potential reclassification include reviews of the bodies and the potential implications of reclassification.

This series is arranged in former reference order by prefix.

See also Energy Saving Trust website in AT 125

See also Waste and Resource Action Programme website in AT 128

From 2025 Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

The record creators came from multiple teams whose organisation and structure changed multiple times due to both internal restructuring and machinery of government changes. Originally located within the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), contributions come from the Energy and Environment Best Practice 1 (Energy and Environment International) and Sustainable Energy Policy teams which were part of the Energy, Environment and Waste Directorate within the Environmental Protection Group. In June 2001 the principal environment protection functions were transferred to the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and shortly after the two teams were merged, retaining the Sustainable Energy Policy name and overseeing sustainable energy policy in business, low carbon technology and the Carbon Trust; international energy efficiency policy (including State Aid in relation to the Climate Change Levy); ACBE Climate Change Working Group Secretariat; Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECA) and Energy Technology List (ETL); energy efficiency policy and promotion; sponsorship of the Energy Saving Trust; and energy services and promotion. Later they would also lead on policy on Combined Heat and Power (CHP); policy on fuel poverty and management of the Warm Front Programme and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP).

In 2007 the department was reorganised and the team was split with Climate and Energy Business and Transport (CEBT) taking responsibility for measures to secure reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases from the business and transport sectors; the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and its implementation in the UK; policy on UK emissions trading schemes, including proposals for an Energy Performance Commitment; Climate Change Agreements; management of Defra funding for the Carbon Trust; and implementation of policy on Enhanced Capital Allowances and Climate and Energy Households and Markets Division (CEHM) responsible for climate change and energy policy in the household sector, including the Energy Efficiency Commitment, Supplier Obligation Post-2011, Fuel Poverty, Climate Change Communications Initiative, energy efficiency in buildings and sponsorship of the Energy Saving Trust; energy market issues, which include Combined Heat and Power and DEFRA's input into distributed generation and microgeneration issues; and transposition of the Energy End Use and Energy Directive with its provisions on metering and billing. Both were part of the International Climate Change Air and Analysis Directorate in the Climate Change Group.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created in 2008 combining the Climate Change Group of DEFRA with the Energy Group from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). The functions carried out by the former teams were primarily overseen by the Programme Support and Delivery branch of the Green Deal team, part of the Energy Efficiency and Consumers Directorate within the International Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Group, and later the Consumers and Household Group.