Further discussions are due to take place on Monday around how to deliver an equivalent £400 energy bill discount to householders in Northern Ireland.
In May, the government drew up plans to help all households in the UK with rising fuel bills.
But the lack of a functioning Executive or Assembly as part of the DUP's protest against the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol meant it was unclear how the scheme would reach Northern Ireland.
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Two Stormont ministers have indicated they are looking at a solution with Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi to deliver an energy bill discount in Northern Ireland.
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey and Economy Minister Gordon Lyons, along with the Utility Regulator, met with the Chancellor in Belfast last Wednesday.
The two ministers are looking at the Treasury paying money to energy companies in Northern Ireland to take off customers bills.
There is to be another virtual meeting on Monday.
Last month, the Westminster Government revealed details of the scheme in which households in Great Britain would get more than £60 off their energy bills each month throughout winter as part of its cost-of-living support measures.
The money, which is part of a package announced in May this year, will be delivered in six instalments over six months to some 29 million households.
Households will see £66 taken off their energy bills in October and November, and £67 between December and March, the Government said.
But there has been uncertainty about how Northern Ireland households will receive the payment to help with energy costs.
The Chancellor has said he is confident about bringing similar measures here.
Pressed on whether the energy discount would be delivered in Northern Ireland, Mr Zahawi said: "I will do everything in my power to make sure that we deliver the money, and hence why I'm here, and hence why we're having these meetings.
"Of course I want to see the executive restored and we will do everything to try and get to a place where it is restored, that is the best place for the people of Northern Ireland, in my view."
Ordinarily, the UK Treasury would have made the payment via a Barnett Consequential to Northern Ireland, as it previously did with a £200 energy loan payment scheme.
It uses the Barnett formula to calculate additional funding when there are changes to government spending affecting devolved services.
However, the Treasury said without a functioning Executive at Stormont to sign off on the money, it is considering other ways to apply the discount.
Northern Ireland is a separately regulated energy market and the situation is further complicated because the power sharing government is not fully functioning.
Stormont has been in limbo since February when the DUP withdrew its First Minister from the power-sharing Executive in protest over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.
Since elections in May, the party has blocked three bids to elect a new Speaker, meaning that no further business can be discussed.
In the absence of a functioning legislative Assembly, a decision-making executive cannot be formed.
Other Stormont ministers can remain in post, but they are unable to make major policy decisions.
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