Energy Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness

(asked on 13th December 2016) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to provide contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the renewables obligation and small scale feed-in-tariffs for steel and other energy intensive industries beyond April 2017.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 21st December 2016

We are engaging with the European Commission about our state aid pre-notification to move from compensation to exemption for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation (RO) and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs (FiT).

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