Levy Control Framework: a chance for budget discipline or a political fiction?
The Levy Control Framework (LCF) came under debate at this year’s BIEE meeting.
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Ofgem foresees ‘blurring of lines’ in future as DNOs take on system operation activities
Distribution network operators (DNOs) have to become more like distribution system operators (DSOs) to help manage energy locally and use both supply and demand to balance.
Acer data reveals market breaches ‘that would have incurred sanctions’; Ofgem issues warning
European energy market participants would have incurred sanctions over the past year for market manipulation if national regulators had had the required powers, a report from the EU’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (Acer) reveals
IEA finds renewable energy costs are ‘no longer outliers’ as they overlap with fossil fuels
Renewable energy technologies are “no longer outliers” in levelised cost of energy (Lcoe), when the costs of electricity generation options are compared, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Rough problems delay 2016/17 contracts
Technical issues at the Rough storage facility have forced Centrica Storage Ltd (CSL) to ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for a steer on how it will approach changes in its operating regime, before it can inform the market what stor
Interview: Could the NFPA - the first auction platform - meet a new need?
Stuart Stephens, commercial director at the Non-Fossil Purchasing Agency (NFPA), describes the organisation as “legacy”.
The New Power Interview: Paul Brodrick, Head of connected communities, Siemens
“People talk about smart cities, and it’s a hundred different things to a hundred different people, but essentially it’s just infrastructure,” says Paul Brodrick.
Should diesel farms be the real winners in the Capacity Market?
The big surprise of the inaugural Capacity Market (CM) auction was the large number of small gas and diesel-fuelled plants that sought – and won – contracts, mostly as new-build suppliers.
Capacity Market auction 2015: a new entrant's view
George Grant is managing director of Stag Energy, and a director of Watt Power, which has two peaking gas-fired plants with development consent orders that can join this year’s auction.
What can we expect in the Capacity Market’s second auction?
Prequalification for this second Capacity Market (CM) auction closed slightly later than planned, on 28 August.