P452 ‘Replacement of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme for non-domestic customers with the Energy Bill Discount Scheme’
Formal title: Replacement of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme for non-domestic customers with the Energy Bill Discount Scheme
This Modification seeks to enable Elexon as the Balancing and Settlement Code Company (BSCCo) to act as the payment provider for the Government’s Energy Bill Discount (EBD) Scheme for non-domestic electricity customers. This scheme will replace the existing Energy Bill Relief (EBR) Scheme.
As a result of high energy prices, the Government introduced the Energy Bill Relief (EBR) Scheme for non-domestic customers, with discounts applied to energy usage initially between 1 October 2022 and 31 March 2023. The EBR Scheme was designed as a temporary 6-month measure to protect non-domestic consumers from soaring energy costs, cutting the cost of power bills and providing them with the certainty they needed to plan through the acute crisis this winter. Modification P449 was implemented on 11 November 2022, which enabled Elexon to act as the EBR Scheme electricity payment provider.
The Government has since announced that support will continue for non-domestic consumers under a replacement scheme, the Energy Bill Discount (EBD) Scheme, which will run for 12 months from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.