211 Electricity support payments for energy-intensive industries

Support for energy-intensive industries

211  Electricity support payments for energy-intensive industries

(1)     The Secretary of State may make regulations requiring payments (“electricity support payments”) to be made to a person who carries out an energy-intensive activity, for the purpose of alleviating the impact on the person of electricity costs.

(2)     In subsection (1), “energy-intensive activity” means an activity (or description of activity) that is designated as such in the regulations.

(3)     The regulations may make provision—

(a)     about the circumstances in which a person is eligible for electricity support payments;

(b)     about how eligibility is to be considered and determined;

(c)     setting out a process for applying for electricity support payments, including provision about the form and content of applications;

(d)     about the calculation of electricity support payments;

(e)     requiring a person to provide information that is relevant to their eligibility for electricity support payments or to the calculation of any such payments;

(f)     requiring a person who supplies electricity to another person to provide information that is relevant to the matters mentioned in

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