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Aims and Agenda
Aims and Agenda Aims of the Roundtable This roundtable will explore reforming energy governance to support the shift to a Net Zero economy. The transformation to achieve Net Zero within the next thirty years will likely require substantial changes to the governance of the UK’s energy system. In recent years, significant work has been undertaken by organisations such as Energy Systems Catapult / IET (through the Future Power Systems Architecture (FPSA) work) and the IGov project at the University of Exeter. The Government is currently consulting on a new governance regime for the set of
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Presentations: Reforming energy goverance for net zero
Presentations: Reforming energy governance for net zero Presentations from: Energy Systems Catapult – Introduction & aims for the day Catherine Mitchell – Getting Energy Governance Right FPSA Perspective Catherine Mitchell – What reform is required of the current energy system/governance? Rebecca Willis – Proposal for an Energy Transformation Commission Energy Systems Catapult – Strategic Oversight – the role of a ‘system architect’ George Day – Clarifying roles, harnessing markets You can download the slidepack here: Governance roundtable – slide deck for distribution
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Presentation: Concluding the 40-year utilities experiment: death spirals or rebirth
Concluding the 40-year utilities experiment: death spirals or rebirth From: Prof. Catherine Mitchell Presentation to: Beesley Lectures 2019 – Lecture 4, Institute of Directors, London, 23rd October 2019 Summary Energy governance Agreement/disagreement with analysis Different perspectives Wider governance issues Recommendations for new governance What does it mean for incumbents? Conclusion Download the presentation: Mitchell C._Beesley Lecture 23rd Oct
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New Thinking: Looking at the NIC Regulatory Review
Looking at the NIC Regulatory Review Catherine Mitchell – IGov Team, 22nd October, 2019 The NIC recently published its conclusions for its Regulatory Review. The EPG submitted evidence to the Review, and was also a member of the Challenge Panel. The Review explored whether the telecom, water and energy regulatory systems are able to deal with the current key challenges they face. It was therefore a high level Review of UK Regulation, rather than a review of the details of each regulatory system. Overall, IGov is pretty pleased with the NIC outcomes. The Report
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Submission: NIC ‘The Future of Regulation Study’ Call for Evidence
National Infrastructure Commission: ‘The Future of Regulation Study’ Call for Evidence Submission from the Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Catherine Mitchell, Rebecca Willis, Richard Hoggett, Iain Soutar, Helen Poulter, Bridget Woodman, Emily Judson and Jess Britton Section 1: Introduction We, the Energy Policy Group (EPG), welcome the NIC’s Call for Evidence on the Future of Regulation. We are an energy group, and as such our comments are likely to be most relevant to energy regulation. Ultimately, we argue that it is Government which has to take responsibility for GB energy policy, and the way
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Submission: Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry into Net Zero Government
Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry into Net Zero Government Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Supplementary note from Dr Rebecca Willis, Research Fellow 1. Overall government framework for net-zero Accountability and responsibility for net-zero: As we discussed, the UK’s Climate Change Act is world-leading, in setting a long-term target – now net-zero – and interim five-yearly budgets, overseen by the Committee on Climate Change. However, beyond the top-level responsibility held by BEIS, it is not clear who is responsible for delivering these targets. Many Departments and Agencies of government make reference to decarbonisation, but this
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New Thinking: Climate Emergency Declarations Accelerating Decarbonisation?
Climate Emergency Declarations Accelerating Decarbonisation? What 249 UK examples can tell us. Calum Harvey-Scholes, IGov Team 20th September 2019 Introduction Following the IPCC 1.5oC Special Report in October 2018, it is clearer than ever that we need to accelerate decarbonisation policy at every level to limit global heating. We know that more than half of all anthropogenic carbon emissions have occurred in the past 30 years, since the establishment of the IPCC, and global carbon emissions are still climbing every year. The IPCC report, the school climate strikes, Extinction Rebellion, and Climate Change: The Facts
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Submission: BEIS / Ofgem Consultation on Flexible & Responsive Energy Retail Markets
Submission to BEIS / Ofgem Consultation on Flexible and Responsive Energy Retail Markets Exeter Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Catherine Mitchell, Richard Hoggett and Rebecca Willis Section 1: Introduction We, the Energy Policy Group (EPG) of the University of Exeter, welcome this opportunity to make comments on the Flexible and Responsible Energy Retail Markets (FRERM) consultation document Consultation. EPG members have been working on this issue for several years. One of the EPG projects in particular, Innovation and Governance for a Future Energy System (IGov), has been focusing on this issue since 2012. The
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Submission: BEIS / Ofgem Consultation on Reforming the Energy Industry Codes
Submission to the BEIS / Ofgem Consultation on Reforming the Energy Industry Codes Submission from the Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Catherine Mitchell, Rebecca Willis and Richard Hoggett Section 1: Introduction We, the Energy Policy Group, of the University of Exeter welcome this consultation, and its parallel Impact Assessment. We find the consultation document to be a thorough and honest review of the long standing discussions about the need to reform Codes. However, before commenting on the specifics of this consultation, it is important to state that the effectiveness of specific measures like
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Paper: Unpacking ‘regime resistance’ in low-carbon transitions
Unpacking ‘regime resistance’ in low-carbon transitions: The case of the British Capacity Market By: Matthew Lockwood, Catherine Mitchell and Richard Hoggett Published in: Energy Research & Social Science (online September 2019) Highlights Provides a critique of concept of ‘regime resistance’ in analysis of sustainable energy transformations. Provides in-depth analysis of energy company lobbying on formation of Capacity Market policy in Britain. Shows evidence of incumbent influence and structural power over government. Demonstrates incumbent power was contingent on interests, institutional context and ideas deployed Abstract The ability of powerful incumbent actors to resist technological or
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