Question follow-through · 14139
Heat Networks: Price Caps
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish a timeline for making heat networks subject to the energy price cap.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish a timeline for making heat networks subject to the energy price cap.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2024
Answer published
Heat network suppliers commercially contract for the fuel that powers heat networks and so they are not subject to the domestic energy price cap. The Government is however, introducing heat network regulation in January 2026 which aims to provide consumer...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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