Warm Home Discount: better targeted support from 2022
We're seeking views on proposals to extend, expand, and reform the Warm Home Discount scheme to 2026.
The Warm Home Discount scheme obliges participating energy suppliers to provide rebates to their customers, to reduce energy bills for low-income and vulnerable households and tackle fuel poverty.
This consultation proposes to expand and reform the scheme in England and Wales until 2026, in line with the commitments announced in the Energy White Paper in 2020. The objective of the reforms is to improve the fuel poverty targeting rate of the scheme and ensure more fuel poor households can receive rebates on their energy bills automatically, through the use of data matching. An Impact Assessment setting out the impact of the proposals accompanies this consultation.
We would particularly welcome responses from energy suppliers and charities and other organisations focusing on fuel poverty and vulnerable people.
See the BEIS consultation privacy notice.
Please do not send responses by post to the department at the moment as we may not be able to access them.