Consultation outcome

Electricity intensive industries - relief from the indirect costs of renewables

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department of Energy & Climate Change
• Published: 31 July 2014
• Last updated: 19 January 2015 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Electricity Intensive Industries - relief from the indirect costs of renewables: government response to the public consultation

Ref: BIS/15/31/

PDF, 271 KB, 14 pages

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Detail of outcome

This document sets out the issues raised by stakeholders through the consultation and the government’s response. Further detailed guidance will be issued later in 2015, once we have received state aid approval from the European Commission.

Detail of feedback received

We received 47 responses to the consultation. Of these, we received:

• 25 from companies
• 21 from trade associations or industry representative groups
• 1 from an academic institute

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Original consultation

Summary

We're seeking views on the proposed eligibility proposals for providing relief from the indirect costs of renewables.

This consultation ran from
10am on 31 July 2014 to 11:45pm on 23 October 2014

Consultation description

The government is consulting on eligibility for schemes designed to provide relief to electricity intensive industries from the indirect costs of renewables.

This comprises of compensation from the renewable obligation (RO) and feed-in tariffs (FIT), which was announced in Budget 2014, and re-consulting on Electricity market reform: contracts for difference costs exemption eligibility- CfDs which ran from 4 July 2013 to 30 August 2013.

Documents

Electricity intensive industries: relief from the indirect costs of renewables - consultation on eligibility

Ref: BIS 14/995

PDF, 272 KB, 34 pages

Electricity intensive industries: relief from the indirect costs of renewables - response form

Ref: BIS 14/995RF

PDF, 62.8 KB, 5 pages

Published 31 July 2014
Last updated 19 January 2015 + show all updates

1. 19 January 2015

   Government response published.

2. 12 August 2014

   Minor amendment to the consultation document

3. 31 July 2014

   First published.