ACA Categories and Criteria

The ACA, as detailed in the Finance Act, covers 10 different equipment categories and 52 associated technologies. To view the eligibility criteria applicable for a particular technology please click on the relevant technology name below.

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Overview of the ACA equipment categories and eligibility criteria:

* Expenditure within each equipment category must, at the end of the accounting period, be equal to or exceed minimum expenditure amounts relevant for each category. Minimum expenditure can be over a range of projects, procurements etc as it only relates to overall company expenditure on BEMS technologies in the accounting period.

On a regular basis, over the course of the the ACA scheme, Statuatory Instruments (S.I.) are published with the latest updates of eligiblity criteria and ACA eligible products (all eligible products published in the SI are also searchable through the online ACA Product Search facility). The current S.I. list is as follows:

• 17.10.2008: S.I. 399 of 2008 (Product list No. 1)
• 05.03.2009: S.I. 76 of 2009 (Product list No. 2)
• 28.09.2009: S.I. 393 of 2009 (Product list No. 3 & 4)
• 17.12.2009: S.I. 549 of 2009 (Product list No. 5)
• 10.05.2009: S.I. 214 of 2010 (Product list No. 6)
• 12.07.2010: S.I. 341 of 2010 (Product list No. 7)
• 20.10.2010: S.I. 501 of 2010 (Product list No. 8)
• 06.12.2010: S.I. 580 of 2010 (Product list No. 9)
• 27.04.2011: S.I. 199 of 2011 (Product list No. 10)
• 01.07.2011: S.I. 317 of 2011 (Product list No. 11)
• 26.10.2011: S.I. 545 of 2011 (Product list No.12)
• 20.12.2011: S.I. 675 of 2011 (Product list No.13)

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