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From the monthly Report
Net zero: ‘no role’ for carbon tax but local energy planning could be key for heat futures
by New Power •
The UK’s new ‘Net Zero’ target has “a wonderful simplicity … because we have to decarbonise everything. There are no excuses. You have to look at every sector and find out how we are going to get the carbon out…
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What’s on the ‘wish list’ for a new energy minister?
by New Power •
No matter what happens with Brexit, the UK will soon have change at the top: at least a change of leadership for the Conservatives, and possibly a general election with the potential for a change of government. Times are changing…
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Speed up new markets, networks told, as BEIS and Ofgem look for ‘tangible changes’
by New Power •
“Further change is needed to deliver an energy system fit for the future”, BEIS and Ofgem have told energy networks, in a letter asking them to go further and faster in accomodating distributed and flexible energy assets and promoting new…
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Ofgem puts RAB funding model among ‘key tasks’
by New Power •
Developing a framework that would allow new nuclear to be delivered under a regulated asset base (RAB) financing model is a key task for Ofgem in the period to 2023, the regulator has said. Government is expected to publish a consultation…
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Public Accounts Committee: sector regulators are failing consumers
by New Power •
Regulators in the energy, water, telecoms and financial service sectors take different and often inconsistent approaches to tackling consumer issues and have not made enough progress in working together, according to a new report from the Public Accounts Committee. What…
From the monthly Report
Is it time to re-examine the regulatory model?
by New Power •
With questions being asked over the UK’s infrastructure by the Treasury, green groups, the National Infrastructure Commission (NC) and citizens’ groups, pressure for public ownership from the Labour Party and calls for local authorities to have a bigger role, the…
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BEIS raises 2020/21 ‘top up’ capacity auction target from zero to 300MW
by New Power •
National Grid ESO should procure 300MW of generation capacity in a ‘T-1′ Capacity Market auction for delivery in the winter of 2020/21, BEIS has said, although capacity estimates say it is not required. BEIS has been more cautious than the…
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Subcontractors named for Moray East onshore work
by New Power •
Siemens has placed contracts for the construction of the transmission infrastructure for the 850MW Moray East Offshore Windfarm. Onshore undergound cables for the project stretch 35km from near Whitehills on the Aberdeenshire coast to the new substation site south of New…
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EV charge operator promises 100 new rapid charge points by Christmas, 2000 by 2024
by New Power •
EV charging network Engenie has anniunced plans to invest £35 million to install 2000 new rapid charge points in the UK by 2024. The plans are being funded by Cube Infrastructure Fund II and the company aims to install the…