The Energy Price Guarantee scheme documents have been withdrawn and the scheme is stated to be closed. The publication page carries the notice "This publication was withdrawn on 13 June 2025" and the line "The Energy Price Guarantee scheme is now closed."1
The documents were first published on 31 October 2022 and last updated on 29 December 20231. They were technical documents for energy suppliers and scheme administrators, described as the agreements between the government, energy suppliers and scheme administrators that enabled delivery of the Energy Price Guarantee to households across the UK1. The government said it intended the documents to be formally recognised by Parliament through regulations laid under the Energy Prices Act1.
Four scheme documents have been withdrawn: domestic electricity consumers in Great Britain, updated November 2023; domestic electricity consumers in Northern Ireland; domestic gas consumers in Great Britain, updated November 2023; and domestic gas consumers in Northern Ireland1. A linked set of ministerial directions for domestic energy consumers in Northern Ireland has also been withdrawn1.
The update history records how the scheme changed. On 2 November 2022, scheme documents for Northern Ireland were added. On 4 January 2023, a link was added to the Northern Ireland ministerial directions. On 27 September 2023, the Great Britain documents were updated "to allow the EPG to provide a discount via standing charges to consumers". On 29 December 2023, the Great Britain gas and electricity documents were replaced with November 2023 versions1.
"This publication was withdrawn on 13 June 2025"
The Energy Price Guarantee is one of a group of closed and abandoned home energy policies. Its history sits alongside the Energy Price Cap, which sets the default tariff limit, and the closed energy bill support payments such as the Energy Bill Support Scheme and the Alternative Fuel Payments.
Why it matters for households
The Energy Price Guarantee limited the unit cost of domestic gas and electricity for a period, with the cost of the difference met through public spending rather than by the household. Its closure means no new household can be brought onto the scheme, and the documents that governed how suppliers applied it are no longer the current published versions. For a household's energy independence, the practical effect is that the protection that once sat between the wholesale market and the bill has ended, and the Energy Price Cap is the mechanism that now governs default tariff rates. The standing charge change recorded in September 2023 is a reminder that support delivered through fixed daily charges affects every bill regardless of how much energy is used, which matters for low-use homes in particular. Households carrying arrears have separate routes, including the British Gas Energy Trust and the Energy Debt Relief Scheme. The wider relationship between bill levels and the country's energy position is set out in Energy Bills and Energy Independence.
What happens next
No next steps for the scheme have been reported. The publication page gives no replacement scheme, no successor support and no date for any further change; it records only the withdrawal on 13 June 2025 and the closure of the scheme1.