Posted 03 April 2008
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Rate up to
31st March 2007 |
Rate from
1st April 2008 |
| Electricity |
0.441p per kWh |
0.456p per kWh |
| Gas |
0.154 p/kWh |
0.159p 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.
This levy is technically designed to be revenue neutral, with the proceeds being used to provide technical and financial help to businesses through The Carbon Trust and by Enhance Capital Allowances on technologies and products that improve efficiency.
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 dependant 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 benefitting 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.)
