Policy paper

Energy retail market strategy for the 2020s

This strategy sets out our vision of the role of the retail market in achieving net zero.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 23 July 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Energy retail market strategy for the 2020s

PDF, 552 KB, 17 pages

Open letter: Price cap announcement

PDF, 130 KB, 2 pages

Details

Our energy retail strategy describes how, by setting a framework that incentivises energy companies to innovate for and engage with their customers, we will work with the market to take consumers on the journey to a net-zero energy system.

We have included here an open letter to interested parties to announce that we will seek to introduce legislation (subject to Parliamentary time and approval) to allow extensions of the default tariff (price) cap beyond 2023.

Alongside this strategy we have published:

• a consultation on Energy retail: opt-in and testing opt-out switching
• a summary of responses to the Flexible and responsive energy retail markets consultation

Published 23 July 2021