Luke Warren, chief executive of CCSA, says setting a minimum deployment level can give new technologies both market certainly and competitive pressure The UK is entering a period of energy policy in which technology specific targets – such as…
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Time for the new government to make the UK a world leader in energy storage
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The UK is leading on research in grid scale electrical energy storage, but its energy regulatory policies are in need of a serious rethink if it is going to realise its potential as a global leader, says Professor Phil Taylor…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s time we made energy efficiency a national infrastructure priority
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As Derek Likorish approaches the end of more than six years as chair of the government’s Fuel Poverty Advisory Group for England, he finds time for some reflection on the past and thoughts on the future I took up…
Book review: Electricity Supply, The British Experiment, by David Porter
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Are ‘good intentions’ on energy enough? David Porter’s inside history of the privatisation and marketisation of the UK energy industry is required reading for anyone who has been in the industry over the years or who has a stake in…
Certify fossil power and let customers choose
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Jessica Lennard, head of corporate affairs at Ovo Energy, argues that true fuel mix disclosure – and customer choice – requires a new certification scheme for fossil power Much time is spent debating the optimum fuel mix at the generation…
Is there progress on energy infrastructure planning?
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Clare Hennessy, UK Technical Director at Parsons Brinckerhoff, finds the infrastructure planning regime a mixed success but welcomes recent changes. If I had a pound for every energy client I have worked with who has complained about changes to planning…