Political dispute in the Balkans causes electricity system frequency...
I have written several times about the challenges facing system operators as the energy transition sees increasing amounts of intermittent generation increasing frequency variation. However, between...
View ArticleRIIO-2: Ofgem consults on tougher price controls for networks
Last week Ofgem has published its consultation for the next round of price controls for energy networks, known as RIIO-2. RIIO-1 had been strongly criticised for allowing network companies to generate...
View ArticleTransmission charging: outcome of judicial review uncertain but changes are...
Last week the legal challenge issued by Peak Gen and seven other companies against Ofgem’s decision last year to change the charging base for the demand residual component of transmission charges was...
View ArticleMarket coupling failures undermine the Internal Energy Market
There are two main pillars to European energy policy: the internal energy market (“IEM”) and the Climate Change Package. The IEM was the result of extending the Single Market into energy, and involved...
View ArticleRelying on interconnectors for security of supply carries risks
Last week Will Gardiner, chief executive of Drax Group, told the Guardian newspaper that Britain’s increasing reliance on electricity imports through the use of interconnectors is a threat to energy...
View ArticleWin for Ofgem: application for juducial review into embedded benefits...
On Friday, Mr Justice Lavender handed down his Judgement on the application by a number of small electricity generators for a judicial review into Ofgem’s decision last year to limit the amount of...
View ArticleOfgem’s new consultation on network charging and access is an important step...
Ofgem has published the latest strand in its ongoing work on making network charging arrangements fit for purpose against a backdrop of significant changes to the nature and use of both transmission...
View ArticleOpening access to the Balancing Mechanism for smaller aggregated assets
National Grid recently published a roadmap to widening access to the Balancing Mechanism to smaller, distributed assets and demand-side response. The increasing de-centralisation of the electricity...
View ArticleUKPN to test new voltage stabilisation technology
The challenges posed to electricity grids by adding increasing amounts of intermittent renewable generation are well known, and costly to manage, however a Scottish technology company claims to have...
View ArticleOfgem publishes next steps in network charging reform
Last week Ofgem published its “minded to” decision on electricity network charging reform as part of its Targeted Charging Review (“TCR”) into the way in which residual transmission charges are...
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