What is the EII Levy/NCCS?

What is the EII Levy/NCCS?

The NCCS is a government scheme which compensates EIIs for up to 60% of their network charges, including Transmission Network, Distribution Network and Balancing Services Use of System charges.

NCCS is part of a wider initiative known as the British Industry Supercharger which also includes relief from Feed-in-Tariff and Capacity Market charges for EIIs.

You can read more about the British Industry Supercharger here:

British Industry Supercharger gives huge boost to UK businesses – GOV.UK

Elexon is the NCCS scheme administrator and you can also find more details about the NCCS and how it operates on their website:

Network Charging Compensation Scheme – Elexon

How will it impact me?

From April 2025, there will be a new cost on customer invoices called the Network Charging Compensation (NCC) levy. This levy will be applied to electricity bills and will fund the government’s Network Charging Compensation Scheme (NCCS) for Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs).

On your consumption invoice you will have new costs for the NCC levy within the Other Charges and Adjustments section, and you will continue to see these charges going forward.

There will be a forecasted charge for the consumption period you are in, this will be reconciled the following year. In addition, there will be an actual monthly cost for April 2024-March 2025 consumption. We receive invoices of actual costs from Elexon approximately one month in advance for the previous years’ consumption.

You can see below the actual costs we have received to date for each month from April 2024 consumption onwards. We will continue to update these monthly as we receive the actual costs from Elexon.

However, if you are an EII customers you won’t have to pay this levy as you will be exempt.

We hope you find this summary clear, but if you have any questions, please contact our customer service team 0800 130 3600 or email support.customerservice.uk@engie.com