Luke Warren, chief executive of CCSA, says setting a minimum deployment level can give new technologies both market certainly and competitive pressure The UK is entering a period of energy policy in which technology specific targets – such as…
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Time for the new government to make the UK a world leader in energy storage
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The UK is leading on research in grid scale electrical energy storage, but its energy regulatory policies are in need of a serious rethink if it is going to realise its potential as a global leader, says Professor Phil Taylor…
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E.On launches smart pre-pay pilot
by New Power •
E.On is trialling a “smart” pay as you go tariff. It will cover just 30,000 customers who are currently on prepayment meters or pay on receipt of their bill. The tariff will be not be offered to other existing and…
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The countdown is on for REMIT reporting: time to get your data in order
by New Power •
With REMIT rearing its head, EMIR fresh in the memory and MiFID II on the horizon, it’s becoming clear that regulation is now an ever-present in the space. Harry Nota looks at where the industry is today and argues that…
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Ovo says: make energy tariffs cost-reflective to kick-start competition
by New Power •
Ovo’s chief financial officer Chris Houghton talks about pricing in an interview with New Power: “We make a margin on every customer however small and we don’t believe in some customers subsidising others. “We don’t think that’s the view throughout…
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Do we need a framework for Better Policy Principles?
by New Power •
Does government need a framework like the Better Regulation Principles to raise the quality of its policy decisions on low carbon? Environmental think-tank Sustainability First suggests it does, and has proposed 12 principles that could form the basis of a…
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Time for a fresh start on funding to develop wave and tidal energy
by New Power •
Dee Nunn argues that government funding for wave and tidal energy development has leveraged private sector investment and created employment. Now a new joined-up funding approach is needed. As an island nation, the UK has some of the best wave…
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Are networks changing?
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Alastair Martin of Flexitricity sees a change in distribution network operators (DNOs): “the Low Carbon Networks Fund stimulated something really quite remarkable in the change of thinking of DNOs, and they are now out there with a strong appetite to…
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We should act now to avoid a data gap in future
by New Power •
Mike Rolls says we should think about the data that will be needed to understand energy consumption in a highly distributed, and partly off-grid, system Energy efficiency and encouraging decentralised low-carbon energy sources for heat and electricity are rising…