As John Parsons argued in the June issue, network charging is an arcane topic but going forward holds the key to the transformation of the electricity system. And Ofgem have recently published their latest consultation on the topic highlighting the importance the regulator attaches to the issue.
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This year’s LCNI Conference took place in Telford and attracted more than 1,000 delegates. The event, which was in its eighth year, has become a key fixture in the energy networks calendar and provides an opportunity to explore key learnings from electricity and gas network innovation projects.
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“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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The announcement is included in Heat Networks: Ensuring Sustained Investment and Protecting Consumers.
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Matt Western, Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington since 2017, made his appeal to the chief executives of Ecotricity, POD Point and BP Chargemaster, which he said are the three largest public EV charging infrastructure networks in the country offering rapid DC charging.
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Distribution network operators (DNOs) could meet the challenges of decarbonisation under the current model, one speaker explained. But doing so would be “horrendously expensive”, requiring huge investments in new capacity to meet peaks in demand.
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One of the main subjects for debate was the governance and regulation of the energy system. Energy Systems Catapult head of innovation Eric Brown (pictured) kicked off the discussion by laying out the scale of the challenge: “Broadly speaking, we’ve inherited the current world from the 1980s when the current frameworks were put in place. And those frameworks were based on the nature of the system and business models as they existed at the time.”
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The group will help to create the plan for the next evolution for electricity transmission beyond 2021 by providing an independent challenge to the company’s business plan and regulator Ofgem.
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The next price control period, RIIO-ED2, starts in 2023 and the company is forming the CEG to oversee the development of its next business plan, which will be submitted to the energy regulator, Ofgem, for approval in 2021.
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