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The government has published its response to the Committee on Climate Change's annual report. In its response it promises new measures including removing the planning threshold for storage technologies.
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However, renewables campaigners expressed disappointment about the lack of a mention for the already delayed energy white paper in the Queen’s Speech.
With Ofgem recently publishing its framework for assessing whether effective competition exists to remove the price cap, industry experts have voiced their concerns about the smart meter rollout being an indicator of success. A legislative “sunset clause” stipulates the cap will end in 2023, but some commentators remain sceptical.
Withering analysis of Labour’s plans to renationalise industries such as energy and water says it would be a return to “failed, ideological economics that would make millions of people poorer in their old age”.
Utility Week policy correspondent David Blackman says clues to how the Conservatives will tackle the net-zero conundrum are expected to be thin on the ground in the Queen's speech. The industry will instead be looking to the long-delayed energy white paper, now expected at the end of this year or beginning of next.
Regulators should be equipped with new powers to ensure utilities invest in sustainable infrastructure and a tougher price control regime introduced for monopoly companies, the National Infrastructure Commission has concluded in its long-awaited report.
It’s private investment – not state ownership – that’s our best bet to realise the UK’s target of net zero by 2050, says ENA chief executive, David Smith.
Jeremy Corbyn has insisted Labour is “fully signed up” to the Green New Deal but did not confirm the 2030 net-zero emissions target backed by his party’s annual conference last month, saying only that Labour would enact “the most ambitious feasible net-zero deadline consistent with a just transition for workers”.
The speculation is finally over. Ofgem has named Jonathan Brearley as the man set to take on arguably the toughest job in regulation right now. And the heat is already on. In fact, as hot seats go, this one is fairly off the scale, says Suzanne Heneghan.
Dr Matthew Lockwood gives his view on the role lobbying by big energy firms played in the breakdown of the system. He argues that new ways of making energy policy are essential if the UK is serious about reaching its net-zero goal.