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Rate up to
31st March 2011 |
Rate from
1st April 2011 |
| Electricity |
0.47p per kWh |
0.485 per kWh |
| Gas |
0.164 p/kWh |
0.169p per kWh |
CCL (Climate Change Levy) is a goverment levy designed to encourage businesses to be more efficient and to reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
CCL will in future rise by the rate of inflation (to be announced each year)
Exemptions are allowed for some businesses, those that are already regulated by the Environment Agency pollution control and some manufacturing industry sectors have sector agreements. Exemption is strictly dependent on reducing actual indexed consumption.
Additional exemptions are available for some qualifying combined heat and power systems and you can buy exempt supplies from electricity suppliers, but these supplies are often provided at a premium to the normal supplies that neutralise the benefit of the exemption. (In addition there is some concern that "green" energy is being oversold, with profit from the sale not necessarily benefiting the promotion of further green sources, and that companies that purchase green energy consider they have done their bit for the environment and consequently do not have to conserve energy.)
