Jon Ferris, head of energy markets, at Utilitywise, looks across changes in the landscape of green levies and subsidies Government  acted in July to try to keep the Levy Control Framework (LCF) below the cap of £7.6 billion in 2020/21.…

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Changes to the Feed-In Tariff will have unintended consequences for a revived hydropower industry, just at a time it is bringing investment and clean energy into rural areas, argues Simon Hamlyn, chief executive of the British Hydropower Association Hydropower is…

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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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