Energy Intensive Industries: Renewables Obligation

(asked on 30th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to paragraph 4.51 of the Red Book, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the Government’s decision not to introduce new low-carbon electricity levies until 2025 on the implementation of the Renewables Obligation (Amendment) (Energy Intensive Industries) Order 2017.


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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 7th December 2017

This Order does not introduce a new levy. It makes an amendment to the existing Renewables Obligation (RO) scheme, to exempt energy intensive industries (EIIs) from some of the costs of the RO, providing real-time support, with increased certainty, to industries with a vital role to play in the UK economy. Therefore, as no additional levy is being introduced the Government’s decision not to introduce new low-carbon electricity levies until 2025 has no bearing on the implementation of the Order.

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