Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including heat networks in the list of sectors eligible for the Energy and Trade Intensive Industries scheme.

There will be thresholds for qualifying for the Energy and Trade Intensive Industries Energy Bill Discount Scheme (EBDS). These thresholds have been set at sectors falling above the 80th percentile for energy intensity and 60th percentile for trade intensity, plus any sectors eligible for the existing energy compensation and exemption schemes. The government does not expect heat networks to qualify for the ETII scheme. As announced at the Budget the government will instead make a separate EBDS rate available for heat networks supplying domestic customers.