Help for businesses and other non-domestic customers
This scheme will provide energy bill relief for non-domestic customers in Great Britain. Discounts will be applied to energy usage initially between 1st Oct 2022 and 31st March 2023.
A similar scheme will be established in Northern Ireland, providing a comparable level of support.
The discount is automatic. If you get a message asking for your bank details, this could be a scam. You should report messages you think are suspicious.
The scheme will be available to everyone on a non-domestic contract including:
Who are:
The government will provide a discount on your gas and electricity unit prices. To calculate your discount, the estimated wholesale portion of the unit price you would be paying this winter will be compared to a baseline ‘government supported price’ which is lower than currently expected wholesale prices this winter.
For all non-domestic energy users in Great Britain this government supported price has been set at:
For comparison, wholesale costs in England, Scotland and Wales for this winter are currently expected to be around:
The designs of the GB scheme and the separate Northern Ireland scheme will be consistent, and will offer an equivalent level of support, but the impact on users will vary in Northern Ireland in particular since there are only limited numbers of fixed price contracts in the market.
To ensure consistency between the domestic and non-domestic schemes, the government supported price is based on the implied wholesale element of the Energy Price Guarantee for domestic customers. It will not be the same as the final per unit price paid by non-domestic customers, which will also reflect other costs such as network charges and operating costs, plus the impact of competition between suppliers.
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