British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme: consultation on scheme eligibility and approach

From:: Department for Business and Trade
Published: 24 November 2025
Last updated: 24 November 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Summary

We are seeking views on the proposed approach to the new British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) and how eligible businesses should be selected.

This consultation is being held on another website.

This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 19 January 2026

Consultation description

The British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) scheme aims to reduce electricity costs. This is for manufacturing frontier industries within the Industrial Strategy’s growth sectors – the Industrial Strategy 8 (IS-8), and manufacturing foundational industries which provide key inputs to the frontier industries, who meet a certain threshold of electricity intensity.

Eligible businesses are to be exempt from paying the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation, Feed-in Tariffs and the Capacity Market.

This consultation seeks views on the scheme’s proposed approach and how businesses eligible for the scheme should be selected. We are seeking views from all stakeholders with an interest in the proposed scheme.

The list of manufacturing foundational industry codes in Table 3 of Annex A was updated at 3:30pm on 24 November 2025.

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