Labour pledges public ownership of networks
The party’s manifesto argues that privatisation has “failed to deliver an energy system that delivers for people, businesses or our environment.”
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Policy Regulation
Labour’s nationalisation plan adds ‘Big Six’ to DNOs
The LibDem manifesto, meanwhile, describes renationalisation as “disruptive’, “costly” and “pointless”, and argues that consumers and the environment are better protected via regulation.
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Is governance fit for purpose?
The recent publication of the FPSA2 (Future Power System Architecture) report highlighted the challenge of delivering 35 new or enhanced functions that will be needed by 2030 to manage the whole power system and its interfaces with other grid-edge vectors – such as gas and transport – in the current institutional governance framework. Ofgem’s Jonathan Brearley highlighted the challenge to regulators of being able to adapt to the speed of change and the breadth of the transformation now under way.
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Johnson toughens up targets on coal power and EVs
The policy announcements came in speech by Johnson to launch a “Year of Climate Action” ahead of the UN COP 26 climate change conference, to be held in November in Glasgow.
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Interconnection will be “real problem” in Brexit, says Whitehead
Speaking at the Utility Week Energy Summit in Westminster, Whitehead said: “We’ve still got to have substantial interconnections and also substantial back up capacity across the system and that is where I think Brexit is a particular issue.
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Investing in the energy decarbonisation transformation benefits consumers
“This price control comes at a crucial time of tackling climate change – the most urgent challenge facing the planet with Britain well placed to be at the forefront of global efforts to reduce carbon emissions,” Pettifer (pictured) explains. “National Grid, believes this must be tackled through collaborative efforts. We need to see much greater progress in making areas like heat and transport cleaner and at a low cost for our planet and energy users. That is why our gas innovation projects are looking at how we can use hydrogen in our networks to support the low carbon transition and bring down costs for consumers. We are also making sure that the right electric vehicle charging infrastructure is in place across the country, to facilitate a rise in electric vehicles on our roads. To reduce electric vehicle range anxiety and improve uptake, we have identified 54 locations for strategic ultra-rapid charging along the motorway network. These can charge a car in the time it takes to buy a coffee. Ultimately, we need to transition to a new low-carbon, low-cost energy system where consumers can see the clear benefits of the energy transmission networks.”
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Heat networks and the trilemma
When politicians talk about the ‘energy trilemma’ (carbon emissions, security of energy supply, energy costs) facing the UK, most people focus on electricity and, more specifically, on “keeping the lights on”.
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Heat networks: the post-Brexit energy solution?
The energy landscape is now far different to how it was just a couple of months ago.
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Health and safety – how we’re getting better
The UK electricity industry has a longstanding ambition to be a world leader in the field of health and safety. It is a commitment that comes from the heart, because anyone who has worked for an organisation that has been involved in a serious accident remembers forever the impact on their own and other people’s lives.
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