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If you run a manufacturing business in the UK and your electricity bill keeps you up at night, there's a new government scheme worth knowing about. It's called the British...
Read the articleWe get some version of this question most weeks now: "we make [X], does that qualify for BICS?" It's a fair question, because the honest answer is that eligibility isn't...
Read the articleEvery so often a client tells us they've already looked into government support for their electricity bill and didn't find anything, only for it to turn out they were looking...
Read the articleNumbers in government scheme documents have a habit of staying abstract until you put them against a real electricity bill, so let's do that.
Read the articleThere's a particular kind of scheme where the deadline feels like a formality until it isn't, and BICS has the shape of exactly that. The application window is short relative...
Read the articleThe BICS guidance is fairly clear about the pieces required for a complete application, and none of them are things you can gather in an afternoon, so it's worth listing...
Read the articleOf everything in the BICS guidance, the site electricity-mix rule is the one most likely to be misunderstood, because it sits underneath the sector and product tests rather than alongside...
Read the articleGovernment schemes tend to get covered from one angle: what it says on gov.uk. It's worth also looking at how the businesses this is aimed at are actually reacting, because...
Read the articleWe've been through the guidance closely enough now to have a fairly good sense of where applications are likely to go wrong, and it's rarely the big, obvious things. It's...
Read the articleSubmitting a BICS application isn't the end of the process, and it's worth understanding what comes after, partly so the wait doesn't feel like something's gone wrong when it's simply...
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