District Heating: Billing
(asked on 18th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April to Question 176758 on District Heating, if he will publish the source of the data used to estimate the annualised heating bills of heat networks customers.
The response to Question 176758 made an assessment of estimated heating bills for a comparable heat network customer and domestic gas customer. The estimated annualised heating bills for a heat network customer used the data sources detailed below.
Data source | Comments on publication |
Quarterly Energy Pricesstatistical publication. Average non-domestic gas prices paid (March 2022 to September 2022) | Currently published ( https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-energy-prices) |
Average non-domestic gas prices paid by Energy Bill Relief Scheme recipients, Winter 2022 | Not published due to commercial sensitivity. |
Impact of Energy Bill Relief Scheme on non-domestic gas contract prices | Currently published ( https://www.gov.uk/guidance/energy-bill-relief-scheme-help-for-businesses-and-other-non-domestic-customers) |
Heat network gas price under Energy Bills Discount Scheme | Currently published ( https://www.gov.uk/guidance/energy-bills-discount-scheme-heat-networks-support) |
Historic Ofgem domestic gas price cap | Currently published. Separate time periods published on separate web pages. ( https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy-and-regulatory-programmes/default-tariff-cap) |