competition
Policy & Regulation
Fifth OFTO tender round kicks off
Ofgem has announced its fifth, and biggest, tender round for offshore transmission owners (OFTOs) will kick off on 10 October.
Strategy & Management
Energy networks ‘may not have their monopolies’ in 20 years, says regulator
Ofgem chief executive Dermot Nolan has said it is possible energy network operation may become open to competition within the next 20 years.
Policy & Regulation
Decc refuses to ‘tie Ofgem’s hands’ on onshore tendering
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has ruled out specifying which model of competitive tendering should be applied to onshore competition for new transmission assets because it “does not believe in tying the regulator’s hands”.