Ofgem unveils delayed timeline for TCR implementation
Ofgem has appeared to knock back the implementation of proposed reforms to network charging under the controversial Targeted Charging Review (TCR).
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A year in the life of Current±, and what’s coming next
Today marks exactly one year since we launched Current±, a publication we very much intended to both demystify and accelerate the clean energy transition. Liam Stoker reflects on the year just gone, and teases plans for next 12 months.
ADE bids to standardise DSR market with new Flex Assure scheme
The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) has launched a new flexibility assurance scheme, designed to help C&I customers understand and participate in flexibility markets.
No nuclear needed: Renewables could meet UK’s carbon targets, but only with new policies
The UK could meet its looming fourth and fifth carbon budgets without the need for new nuclear, but only if renewables policy is urgently ramped up, Cornwall Insight has claimed.
'A huge setback': Labour nationalisation plans could beset clean energy transition, industry says
The industry reacts to plans announced by The Labour Party to re-nationalise the UK’s energy networks after a document detailing the plans was leaked.
Labour bids to ‘bring energy home’ in sweeping renationalisation plans
The Labour Party has unveiled major plans to renationalise the UK’s entire electricity and gas system, claiming that the current system is not fit for purpose.
Npower slumps to loss as innogy seeks closure on ‘unusual’ takeover situation
Innogy said it was seeking closure on the “unusual situation” of being in the middle of the RWE/E.On asset swap, while its npower retail division continued to suffer at the hands of a “persistently poor” UK market.
Liam Stoker looks back on a week that saw the UK go a week without coal for the first time since the Industrial Revolution and Theresa May take the time out to tweet her applause, warning that the achievement will be hollow unless the PM backs urgent action.
Chancellor urged to support ‘once-in-a-generation’ energy and transport transformation
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has been urged to throw the Treasury’s clout behind a transformation of energy and transport networks described as “once-in-a-generation”.