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Keeping the Lights On

Ian Marchant. In his former role as CEO of SSE, Ian Marchant was outspoken about the risk of the UK’s ”lights going out” unless further action was taken over the generation and supply of power. In March 2013 he warned that the government was seriously underestimating the “capacity crunch” currently facing the country. “The government is significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the UK in the next three years and there is a very real risk of the lights going out as a result.” He added the government could reduce this risk significantly by taking further action to provide a greater clarity on its various electricity market reforms and also by bringing forward capacity payments for existing plants from 2018 to 2014. In this presentation Ian discussed how the UK can keep the lights on and on issues and challenges facing the energy sector. “Our modern way of life is almost completely dependent on the provision of reliable and affordable energy and as a result rarely a day goes past without the energy industry making headlines. I Read more…

Categories: Energy policy, Energy security, Finance and investment, Meetings

Tags: Carbon, Electricity, EMR, Ian Marchant, UK

Keeping-the-Lights-on-Ian-Marchant-May22nd.pdf 1.45 MB

22nd
May
2014

Energy in a low carbon economy: new roles for governments and markets

David Newbery, EPEG Cambridge EU climate policy comprises of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to price CO2, the 20-20-20 Directive to create a demand pull for renewables and the EU SET-Plan to double R&D spending. However there are failures with some aspects of these policies, such as the ETS CO2 price being volatile and too low and the Renewables Directive undermining the ETS as it can reduce the price of EUAs and prejudice other forms of low carbon generation (nuclear). UK energy policy seeks to ensure a secure, affordable and efficient, low carbon energy system and is based in part around the policy lead from the EU. However, the UK also needs to consider how policy can support the transition to low carbon and the wider goals for the energy system. This requires the development of certainty to ensure that timely investment comes forward, including: a need for quick clarity on energy policy; the reduction of unnecessary risk; the replacement of ROCs with tendered FiTs; underpinning and guaranteeing the carbon price; and reform of the market and transmission access.

Categories: Conference Presentations, Electricity and nuclear, Energy and environment, Energy policy

Tags: Carbon, Climate change, CO2 emissions, conference 2010, David Newbery, Electricity Transmission, Emissions, Emissions trading, Energy in a Low carbon economy, Energy pricing, ETS, FiTs, Renewables, ROC, UK

Energy in a low carbon economy - Presentation.pdf 366.01 KB

22nd
Sep
2010

Building Market Transformation: transforming markets from the inside

Mark Hinnells, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford Buildings account for 47% of UK carbon emissions. Building Market Transformation is exploring how markets could be transformed to achieve large-scale reductions in carbon emissions from both residential and non-residential buildings (eg as much as 80% by 2050). For many years, policy has been evolutionary and has allowed businesses and business models to remain broadly unaltered. However, policy is now arguably becoming revolutionary and eliciting exciting unexpected and unpredicted responses from business. The paper several examples of how business models may fracture and then new ones emerge as a result of changed policy. There are also likely to be new ways of learning in response to policy, eg using internet based communities to build partnerships and share learning much faster than through conventional routes. The author, as well as being a researcher at Oxford is a partner in a business incubator in the process of developing four low carbon businesses, each of which has been given the opportunity to emerge because of changed policy and market conditions. The paper is based on Read more…

Categories: Academic Papers, Energy policy

Tags: Buildings, Carbon, conference 2008, Emissions, Innovation, scenarios, security and sustainability, UK

25th
Sep
2008

Regulating energy suppliers to deliver energy demand reduction

Dr Nick Eyre, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford Regulation of energy companies to provide energy efficiency improvements for their customers has a long history, but the UK has led the way in using energy efficiency obligations on energy suppliers to households in fully liberalised markets through the Energy Efficiency Commitment (EEC), now renamed the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT). This has increased deployment of cost effective energy efficiency technologies and therefore reduced energy demand growth. EEC is widely seen in the UK as a successful policy and has influenced recent developments in other countries. However, it has limitations. The obligation structure does not allow actors other than energy suppliers to own EEC credits, and therefore has not generated a transparent market in energy efficiency. Mechanisms that allow removal of the volume sales driver for energy suppliers in regulated monopoly markets are not replicable in liberalised markets. And energy efficiency obligations do not seek to address the growing demand for energy services. So EEC has not fundamentally changed energy supplier business models, nor has it delivered incentives to consumers to Read more…

Categories: Academic Papers, Energy demand, Energy efficiency, Energy policy

Tags: Carbon, conference 2008, Emissions, Energy efficiency, energy services, energy supply, Liberalisation, Regulation, security and sustainability, tradeable permits, UK

Regulating-energy-demand-to-deliver-energy-demand-reduction-paper.pdf 115.3 KB

25th
Sep
2008

A distinctive Energy Policy for Scotland?

Professor Peter McGregor, Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde The objective of this paper is to explore the extent to which there has emerged a distinctive energy policy for Scotland, and to examine the degree to which any differentiation from UK energy policy may be judged to be either desirable or problematic. This requires a detailed consideration of both UK and Scottish energy policies. It is critically important to recognise that any energy policy in the present UK institutional setup operates in the context of liberalised energy markets. Energy policy instruments have to induce market participants to change their behaviour in such a way as to produce an outcome that meets the ultimate objectives/ goals of energy policy subject to a range of economic, political and legislative constraints. Typically, progress would be assessed at least partially through monitoring of intermediate targets or indicators. Implicit in this policy framework is a judgement that, in the absence of energy policies, liberalised markets would produce outcomes that were incompatible with the objectives of policy makers, including lower emissions to inhibit climate change and Read more…

Categories: Academic Papers, Energy modelling, Energy policy

Tags: Carbon, Climate change, conference 2008, Emissions, instruments, Liberalisation, Marine, Scotland, security and sustainability, UK

24th
Sep
2008

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Keeping the Lights On

Energy in a low carbon economy: new roles for governments and markets

Building Market Transformation: transforming markets from the inside

Regulating energy suppliers to deliver energy demand reduction

A distinctive Energy Policy for Scotland?

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