Widening eligibility for energy intensive industries for renewable cost exemption schemes

Overview

This consultation seeks views on whether to widen the scope of eligibility for energy intensive industries (EIIs) for exemption from a proportion of the indirect costs of the renewable electricity support schemes – Contracts for Difference (CfD), Renewables Obligation (RO) and, if introduced, small-scale Feed-In Tariffs (FiTs). We are also consulting on two additional issues, relating to:

• redistribution of money recovered from over-exempted EIIs; and
• improving operation of the exemption schemes

There is a parallel consultation by the Scottish Government on widening eligibilty for the RO exemption scheme, which is devolved in Scotland. See links to the Scottish Government's consultation below.