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Publications
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Submission to CMA Energy Market Investigation – Provisional Findings & Possible Remedies
Comments on the CMA Energy Market Investigation – Provisional Findings and Possible Remedies Catherine Mitchell, Bridget Woodman, Matthew Lockwood, Jessica Britton, Caroline Kuzemko and Richard Hoggett, Energy Policy Group (EPG), University of Exeter Introduction 1) The Energy Policy Group (EPG) is pleased to make comment on the Provisional Findings Report (PF) and on the Possible Remedies report (PR). In the past, we have input a submission to the CMA’s Statement of Issues. We then gave oral evidence, the summary of which is now up on the CMA’s website. We then commented on the Updated Issues We
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Viewpoint: We must not recreate the wrong market model
On Reflection: We must not recreate the wrong market model Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 28th August 2015 EUROPE: The EU’s proposal for a new Electricity Market Design turns a blind eye to the elephant in our midst. Operating wholesale electricity markets that set payments based on the marginal cost of generation is an energy model that needs a rewrite. The more the wind blows and the sun shines, the more electricity is fed into the market, driving down prices as demand is saturated. Low prices might sound like good news for electricity customers, but for
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Paper: Capacity Demand Pricing Mechanism – Bringing Clarity out of Ambiguity
Issues in Market Design The EU recently published its EU Market Design Consultation. Overall, it is a good document but it has little information and about the details of electricity markets. It is important that a vigorous debate occurs. In that light, we are pleased to post this short think piece by Mike Hogan. Download: Capacity Demand Pricing Mechanism
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Book Chapter: How and Why Do Policy Paradigms Change; and Does It Matter? The Case of UK Energy Policy
New book chapter from Florian Kern, Caroline Kuzemko, and Catherine Mitchell: How and Why Do Policy Paradigms Change; and Does It Matter? The Case of UK Energy Policy in J. Hogan and M. Howlett (eds) Policy Paradigms in Theory and Practice. Discourses, Ideas and Anomalies in Public Policy Dynamics. For more information visit the Palgrave Macmillan website. The contributors investigate policy paradigms and their capacity to explain the policy process – actors, ideas, discourses and strategies employed – to provide readers with a better understanding of public policy and its dynamics. Drawing together leading researchers in the
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Viewpoint: Designing energy policy under uncertainty
Designing energy policy under uncertainty By: Catherine Mitchell Published in: Nature Climate Change (Vol. 5 – No. 6), June 2015, doi:10.1038/nclimate2662 Countries need to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from the energy sector if the world is to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. But no one is sure of the best path. New research highlights the key uncertainties driving energy policy debate in the UK. The full article is available from nature climate change
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Paper: Creating protective space for innovation in electricity distribution networks in Great Britain
Creating protective space for innovation in electricity distribution networks in Great Britain: The politics of institutional change By: Matthew Lockwood Published in: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Volume 18, March 2016, Pages 111–127. Available online 6 June 2015 (open access) Highlights The locus for protective space for innovation in network industries is the regulatory regime. In the case of Britain, the creation of space for RD&D has come through the layering of rules. Such layering can be explained partly through institutional discretion and fixed regulatory rules. RD&D mechanisms faced strong initial opposition from the dominant policy
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Submission to CMA Energy Market Investigation – Updated Issues Statement
Comments on the CMA Energy Market Investigation – Updated Issues Statement Catherine Mitchell, Bridget Woodman, Caroline Kuzemko and Richard Hoggett, Energy Policy Group (EPG), University of Exeter Summary 1. We, the EPG, are very pleased that the CMA investigation is taking place because it is has encouraged a much wider debate about the future of the GB energy system. Whilst, in fact, the EPG does not agree with most of what the CMA appears to have concluded so far, the process has been very beneficial, particularly with the uploading of the various working papers
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Article: Getting our act together
Getting our act together By: Catherine Mitchell Published in: The House, 17th April 2015 The energy policy decisions facing the next Government require a dual determination to do the right thing for British society interests (as opposed to the interests of a few big companies, and their supply chains) and the strength of purpose to make fundamental changes to the institutional framework of the GB energy system, which is currently not fit for purpose. The Tory / Lib Dem coalition has overseen a new Energy Act which has made matters worse: it is leading to a
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Book Chapter: The Political Dynamics of Green Transformations: Feedback Effects and Institutional Context
Matthew Lockwood The Political Dynamics of Green Transformations: Feedback Effects and Institutional Context in I. Scoones, M. Leach and P. Newell (eds.) The Politics of Green Transformations. Published by Routledge, January 2015. For more information visit the Routledge website. Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of
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Paper: Measuring and explaining policy paradigm change – the case of UK energy policy
Caroline Kuzemko, discusses her article Measuring and explaining policy paradigm change: the case of UK energy policy written with Florian Kern and Catherine Mitchell, which is published in the latest edition of Policy & Politics. Across the social sciences a great many scholars are engaged in trying to understand policy and institutional change – not least within political science. One reason for mounting interest in change has been the growing awareness of anthropogenic climate change, of continued growth in global emissions and of what kinds of (varied) implications this might have for societies around the world. Energy has received a
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