<p>The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was created in February 2023. The Department has not issued any consultations for which a response is outstanding.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Machinery of Government changes, the Government inherited 34 ongoing consultations from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:</p><p>- Review of the energy intensive industries exemption scheme;</p><p>- Considerations for future Contracts for Difference (CfD) rounds;</p><p>- Capacity Market 2023: strengthening security of supply and alignment with net zero;</p><p>- Improving boiler standards and efficiency;</p><p>- Smart Meter Targets Framework: minimum installation requirements for Year 3 (2024) and Year 4 (2025);</p><p>- Review of consents for major energy infrastructure projects and Special Protection Areas, 2022;</p><p>- Data sharing regulations for a safeguard energy tariff;</p><p>- Energy retail: opt-in and testing opt-out switching;</p><p>- Designing a framework for transparency of carbon content in energy products: call for evidence;</p><p>- Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes;</p><p>- Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme: request for information;</p><p>- Review of consents for major energy infrastructure projects and Special Protection Areas;</p><p>- Proposals for hydrogen transport and storage business models;</p><p>- Decarbonisation readiness: call for evidence on the expansion of the 2009 Carbon Capture Readiness requirements;</p><p>- Future of the energy retail market: call for evidence;</p><p>- 1st Offshore Carbon Dioxide Storage Licensing Round Appropriate Assessment;</p><p>- UK Emissions Trading Scheme free allocation review: call for evidence;</p><p>- Greenhouse gas removals (GGR) business models;</p><p>- Phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating systems in businesses and public buildings off the gas grid;</p><p>- Re-coupling Great Britain electricity auctions for cross-border trade;</p><p>- Exemptions from the requirement for an electricity licence: call for evidence;</p><p>- Climate Change Agreements (CCAs): proposals for a future scheme;</p><p>- Future policy framework for power with carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): call for evidence;</p><p>- Land rights and consents for electricity network infrastructure: call for evidence;</p><p>- Introducing a performance-based policy framework in large commercial and industrial buildings;</p><p>- Role of biomass in achieving net zero: call for evidence;</p><p>- Cost of energy review: call for evidence;</p><p>- Improving home energy performance through lenders;</p><p>- Potential of marine energy projects in Great Britain: call for evidence;</p><p>- Designing the Green Heat Network Fund: call for evidence;</p><p>- Phasing out the installation of fossil fuel heating in homes off the gas grid;</p><p>- Green Gas Support Scheme 2022 annual tariff review: call for evidence;</p><p>- Third-party intermediaries in the retail energy market: call for evidence;</p><p>- Non-domestic Private Rented Sector minimum energy efficiency standards: EPC B implementation.</p><p>We will respond to these consultations as soon as possible.</p>