E.On is trialling a “smart” pay as you go tariff. It will cover just 30,000 customers who are currently on prepayment meters or pay on receipt of their bill. The tariff will be not be offered to other existing and…
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The countdown is on for REMIT reporting: time to get your data in order
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With REMIT rearing its head, EMIR fresh in the memory and MiFID II on the horizon, it’s becoming clear that regulation is now an ever-present in the space. Harry Nota looks at where the industry is today and argues that…
Ovo says: make energy tariffs cost-reflective to kick-start competition
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Ovo’s chief financial officer Chris Houghton talks about pricing in an interview with New Power: “We make a margin on every customer however small and we don’t believe in some customers subsidising others. “We don’t think that’s the view throughout…
Do we need a framework for Better Policy Principles?
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Does government need a framework like the Better Regulation Principles to raise the quality of its policy decisions on low carbon? Environmental think-tank Sustainability First suggests it does, and has proposed 12 principles that could form the basis of a…
NEW POWER: May issue out now
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INTERVIEW
Interview: Chris Houghton, CFO, Ovo, on growing an energy independent, community energy and the real barriers
FEATURES
CASH-OUT REFORM: how it will affect companies – and key issies on the to-do list before it comes into effect in November
OFFSHORE WIND: what lies behind construction disputes?
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: positive news from the largest trials
GAS GENERATION: mothballed plant and cancellations – and a pipeline of new projects
BIOMASS: the effect of policy change at Uskmouth
Plus theories of regulation; how things are changing in Texas; and the Summer Outlook
Time for a fresh start on funding to develop wave and tidal energy
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Dee Nunn argues that government funding for wave and tidal energy development has leveraged private sector investment and created employment. Now a new joined-up funding approach is needed. As an island nation, the UK has some of the best wave…
NEW POWER: April issue out now
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INTERVIEW
Tim Emrich of UK Power Reserve talks about distributed generation and the demand side
FEATURES
Nuclear: three horse race
Triad: is it past its peak?
Denmark: warm words
Capacity Market: exclusive poll results
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PLUS:
Beating the RO deadline – interview with REG
Europe dreams of integration
Ofgem’s vision for transmission networks
Are networks changing?
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Alastair Martin of Flexitricity sees a change in distribution network operators (DNOs): “the Low Carbon Networks Fund stimulated something really quite remarkable in the change of thinking of DNOs, and they are now out there with a strong appetite to…
We should act now to avoid a data gap in future
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Mike Rolls says we should think about the data that will be needed to understand energy consumption in a highly distributed, and partly off-grid, system Energy efficiency and encouraging decentralised low-carbon energy sources for heat and electricity are rising…
New Power: MARCH ISSUE OUT NOW
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In this issue:
INTERVIEW
Alastair Martin of Flexitricity talks strategies for the Capacity Market and STOR and reveals some “market revolutions” in the offing
FEATURES
Networks: speeding up connections, using the demand side, and examining new commercial arrangements with DNOs
Interconnectors: Decc’s proposed derating methodology, plus what’s going on in our neighbouring markets?
Farm power: plans to plant new projects
PLUS:
The rise of diesel – interview with Plutus. Concerns over coal closure ‘misguided’. From Nexus to Link: on track for 1 October? CfD auction results
And much more
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