Networks cannot always rely upon the market to provide the storage services they require at the lowest cost, according to director of strategy and regulation Suleman Alli.
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The smart meter rollout is a fantastic opportunity to bring cutting edge technology into the heart of people’s homes. Through in-home displays being installed in every home and business in the UK, people across the country will be enabled to use energy more efficiently. Crucially, in times when many people are concerned about the costs of their energy usage, householders will also be able to use information provided by the meters to make substantial savings on their energy bill.
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We have spent the last four decades developing approaches to policy, economic, environment, technology, society and our energy networks which consign each element to existence as a silo. In truth, they should be elements of a single, whole system view and today, a revolution is underway to realise this vision.
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In a report released today ADE has called for a guarantee on future heat connection capacity to reduce the risk for investors, lower business rates for heat networks to match those for electricity and gas networks, and an expansion of the role of the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Heat Networks Delivery Unit.
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Ofgem’s justification of the move to block DNOs from owning and operating storage was that it sees network operators increasingly in the role of buyers of flexibility services, and as such, does not want them to operate their own storage. It believes that as DNOs transition to becoming distribution system operators (DSOs), their impartiality must be guaranteed, and that this will not be possible if they have an interest in a particular option.
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Researchers from the University of Bath have called for a “rapid rethink” on smart meters.
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The news of Greg Clark’s appointment as Secretary of State for the newly-created Ministry of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, must be welcomed.
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Customers living on heat networks across the UK will now be able to compare their annual heating and hot water costs with alternative heating systems using Heat Trust’s Heat Cost Calculator.
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