The Government has announced a new Energy Bills Discount Scheme (EBDS) to run from 1 April 2023 for eligible non-domestic consumers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This replaces the current Energy Bill Relief Scheme for non-domestic customers, which comes to an end on 31 March 2023 and provided a reduction on wholesale gas and electricity prices.

Non-domestic customers includes voluntary sector organisations and charities, as well as businesses and public sector organisations such as schools, hospitals and care homes.

The scheme is available to those who are:

• on existing fixed price contracts that were agreed on or after 1 December 2021
• signing new fixed price contracts
• on deemed / out of contract or standard variable tariffs
• on flexible purchase or similar contracts.

Amount of Discount

A discount will be applied to the unit price of gas and electricity for 12 months from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. Customers who have a contract with a licensed energy supplier will see a unit discount of up to £6.97 per MWh [Megawatt hour] automatically applied to their gas bill and a unit discount of up to £19.61per MWh automatically applied to their electricity bill.

Find out more about the Energy Bill Discount Scheme for 2023/24

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