E.On has said the government must throw its support behind small-scale renewables as an urgent priority as the industry faces a looming policy cliff edge.
Ofgem has published its update on its next set of RIIO price controls, with the immediate headline to take that the regulator has deferred a final decision on appropriate returns until December. But there are a number of interesting points within the 120-page document that are sure to get the networks sector talking.
Energy regulator Ofgem has deferred its decision on the cost of equity range for energy networks in the forthcoming RIIO-2 framework until December, but has unveiled a raft of decisions as its new framework begins to take shape.
The UK government has put forward a future vision for small-scale renewables which places the generators at the heart of local flexibility and balancing markets.
The government’s official positioning on a post-Brexit energy relationship is “encouraging”, but time is rapidly running out for the finer details of that relationship to be agreed upon, Energy UK has said.
National Grid has confirmed it will aim to procure 46.3GW of reserve capacity in the forthcoming T-4 2022/23 auction and 4.6GW in the T-1 2019/20 auction following approval from energy minister Claire Perry.
Energy UK chief executive Lawrence Slade has urged government officials to deliver more certainty and clarity over the future regulatory landscape in the wake of Brexit, claiming that the opacity around future frameworks is already impacting the sector.
