Author Archive for New Power

Will Energy Efficiency be achieved by obligation?

Jan Rosenow finds that Energy Efficiency Obligations are conquering Europe. He is not so sure that they are the silver bullet for energy independence   Energy efficiency has risen rapidly up the European political agenda, due in no small part…

Peak issues mean wind must work with gas

Wind power has much to offer on emissions reduction but less on firm capacity. A A Bettinson, R A Broughton and W E Hatfield argue that the new “demand stack” will need more flexible gas. In 2013, the UK’s wind…

THE NEW POWER INTERVIEW: STEPHEN LITTLECHILD

As head of then-energy regulator Offer, Stephen Littlechild was instrumental in setting up our energy market, and he says it would still work – provided political pressure does not put a spoke in the wheel. But that’s exactly what has…

Act fast to keep the Capacity Market on track

A great deal needs to be done to ensure that a workable capacity market is launched as planned later this year, argues Clive Moffatt The EMR proposals were fundamentally flawed because they focused almost exclusively on creating price incentives to…