When considering the effect of George Osborne’s Spending Review, leave aside the messages on climate change and low carbon, if you can, important as they are a few days before those issues are debated in Paris. The withdrawal of funding…
Editor’s blog
Requiring more gas storage is premature: an ‘energy storage’ obligation could tap existing flexibility in heat, cooling and power more cheaply
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I have heard some interesting discussions about gas storage recently. The industry has argued for several years that we need more storage. And, the argument runs, since the market doesn’t seem to support an expansion, customers should provide a subsidy.…
To frack or not to frack?
by New Power • • 1 Comment
Janet Wood says if we have to use fracked gas, it is better to abstract it in the UK, under our close scrutiny, than do it by stealth, over the horizon,
Buy back the big six energy companies, Jeremy Corbyn? Don’t waste our money
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The Labour leadership candidate’s plan would waste time and money trying to go back to the 1950s, when there is a 21st century model emerging that includes local ownership
The CMA, P272, and why consumers can’t take the full benefit of smart meters
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Energy customers can’t be charged for their real hourly use, even if they have smart meters, because the industry process charges for them on the basis of standard “profiles”. The CMA wants action