Breaking down your business' electricity charges

AAHEDC

This stands for Assistance for Areas with High Electricity Distribution Costs. It's a small levy that helps to fund the distribution of energy to remote parts of northern Scotland.

Balancing services use of system (BSUoS)

This money goes to National Grid. They use it to make sure there’s never too little or too much energy available.

Capacity market

These charges go to the National Energy System Operator, who prevent blackouts over winter. They make sure some generators are on standby for when supplies get low.

Contracts for difference

This money goes to a scheme that guarantees green generators a minimum price when they sell their energy.

Data communications company (DCC)

The DCC is the national network for smart meters. It keeps them online, so they can send readings and other information from the user to the supplier.

This charge helps to fund the DCC.

Distribution use of system charges (DUoS)

This goes towards the cost of transporting energy from your distributor to you.

This is similar to TNUoS charges. But TNUoS covers getting energy from generators to your distributor. DUoS then takes care of moving that power from your distributor to you.

Elexon

These charges go to Elexon, the organisation that runs the Balancing and Settlement Code. In other words, they help to make sure that producers of electricity are all generating the right amounts - and doing so fairly.

Feed-in Tariff (FIT)

This helps to fund the Feed-In Tariff. FIT pays small-scale generators for their energy - like houses with solar panels on the roof.

Retail energy code

This money goes to the Retail Energy Code Company. They make sure the retail energy market runs in the interest of both consumers and the industry.

REGOs

REGO stands for renewable energy guarantee of origin. This money goes towards providing REGOs for the energy we supply. In turn, this supports generators of green electricity.

Renewable obligation

This is like FIT, but for large-scale generators.

Smart GB

These costs help to fund Smart Energy GB. This is the organisation that’s helping to spread smart meters all across the country.

Transmission network use of system charges (TNUoS)

This covers the cost of transporting energy from generators to your local distributor.

This is similar to DUoS charges. TNUoS covers getting energy from generators to your distributor. DUoS then takes care of moving that power from your distributor to you.