Energy networks aspire to be part of the green recovery and unleash investment, but there are some significant policy and regulatory challenges to navigate on the way, reports Jane Gray
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The EV Energy Taskforce, which brings together energy and automotive industries, has been asked to reconvene to help overcome obstacles to the rollout of electric vehicles.
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The triumph of offshore wind has shown how long-term policy and price signals can rapidly drive technology forward – and even Boris Johnson is full on behind its expansion. But can the same model work for other renewables, or is it time for a new set of energy market reforms?
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Government could be set to invest more in small modular reactors as part of the green recovery plan. They could provide the natural successors to large nuclear reactors, supplying baseload in a future where intermittent energy will play an increasing part. But only if there is commitment to the necessary volume to deliver progressive cost reduction, say Julianne Antrobus and Robbie Lyons
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The brooding row between Ofgem and networks over the draft price determinations would appear to strike at the very heart of energy companies’ ambitions to Build Back Better – no more so than at National Grid as executive director Nicola Shaw tells Denise Chevin
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When looking at the factors that will influence future energy strategy, it can often pay to look to the past, according to Npower Business Solutions’ head of flexibility services, Ben Spry
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Devolved energy policy and funding would serve decarbonisation best, 60 academics who form the EnergyRev research will tell BEIS, as one of their number Dr Jeff Hardy explains.
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The post Covid stimulus will create more demand for green energy – but what is really green – and what isn’t? Alan John and Deborah Harvey from Osborne Clarke explain
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“If you don’t want to make a decision, you can always find a reason for not making it,” says John Armitt, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, on the lack of energy policy coming out of BEIS. We’re risking missing net zero targets if it doesn’t make its mind up soon, he tells Denise Chevin.
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As utility companies lead the charge to net zero by 2050 and look to reduce their own energy consumption, Jonathan Maxwell CEO of Sustainable Development Capital, advises how they can harness investment in their own estates to reduce carbon emissions
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The Chancellor’s announcement of £3 billion for energy efficiency measures is just what the sector ordered. But, David Blackman asks, are we geared up to spend the money?
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While the challenges of decarbonising heat are well known, a clear plan to achieve it is yet to emerge. The case for public private partnerships with local authorities has never been stronger says Jody Pittaway sector director for SSE Enterprise Heat
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