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Consultation outcome

British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme: consultation on regulatory changes and scheme delivery

From:
Department for Business and Trade
Published
16 April 2026
Last updated
8 July 2026 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

This consultation has concluded

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Detail of outcome

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This government response sets out the approach to聽regulatory changes and scheme design for BICS, informed by responses to the consultation.

Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on the proposed regulatory changes and approach to scheme delivery for the new British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS).

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

The British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) aims to reduce electricity costs for manufacturing frontier industries within the Industrial Strategy鈥檚 growth sectors (the IS-8), and foundational manufacturing industries which provide key inputs to the frontier industries, who meet the relevant聽electricity鈥慽ntensity聽threshold.聽

Eligible聽businesses聽are to be exempt from聽paying聽the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation聽and聽Feed-in Tariffs from April 2027 and the Capacity Market from October 2027.聽聽聽

This consultation seeks views on the proposed regulatory changes needed to implement聽BICS聽and how we propose the scheme be delivered.

This consultation covers Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and does not apply to Northern Ireland. The Scottish Government is responsible for the Renewable Obligations legislation in Scotland and will be consulting separately on changes to their legislation.

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Updates to this page

Published 16 April 2026
Last updated 8 July 2026 Show all updates

  1. Government response to the consultation and 'BICS sectoral consumption estimates' spreadsheet added to the page.

  2. First published.

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