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Submission: Building Our Industrial Strategy Green Paper Consultation
Submission to the Building Our Industrial Strategy Green Paper Consultation Catherine Mitchell, Richard Hoggett and Matthew Lockwood Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Introduction We, the Energy Policy Group (EPG) of the University of Exeter, welcome this opportunity to respond to HM Government’s Building our Industrial Strategy. We are an academic research group which works on the links between governance and innovation, in particular with respect to energy although we do have two projects on the food, energy and water nexus. With respect to this industrial strategy, we are most interested in whether it will
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Institutional governance reform – the essential ingredient for a sustainable, secure and affordable energy system
Institutional governance reform – the essential ingredient for a sustainable, secure and affordable energy system Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 4th April 2017 This is a re-blog of a Blog by Catherine Mitchell which originally appeared in the 3 April 2017 issue of Utility Week: Institutional governance reform – the essential ingredient for a sustainable, secure and affordable energy system. GB currently has an energy governance framework – meaning policies, institutions, rules and incentives of markets and networks – which is not fit-for-the-purpose of transforming the current centralised, carbonised energy system into a decarbonised, flexible and secure
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Presentations: German Energy Transition
Societal Transformation to Sustainability: Universities as Pacesetters Details: The University Alliance for Sustainability (UAS) Spring Campus, Freie University of Berlin (27-31 March 2017) Panel: German Energy Transition, 28th March 2017 Germany strives to transition its energy supply system towards a high share of renewables. The development is embedded in the European context with the aim of linking national energy supply systems more closely. At the same time, the process takes place in a federal system with high scope of action of the provinces, and it is accompanied by an increasingly decentralized structure with pioneering initiatives and
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New Thinking: Reset the reset (3) – DER Walking the Walk
Reset the reset (3) – Walking the Walk: we need to agree a DER assessment process and a methodology to value DER which fits with a smart and flexible energy system Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 16th March 2017 IGov is arguing that the Government/BEIS should initiate a process to develop a fit-for-purpose GB energy governance framework – analogous to (but not necessarily the same as) the IGov Fit-for-Purpose GB Energy Governance Framework. Other jurisdictions around the world are already well into the process of creating a smart and flexible energy system, inter alia here. The
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New Thinking: Reset the reset (2) – Aligning Content with Intent
Reset the reset (2) – Aligning Content with Intent: BEIS and the Regulator have to sort out their relationship and roles Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 15th March 2017 GB has a stated intent of moving to an energy system capable of delivering a cost-effective decarbonised energy system by 2050 – thereby meeting the Committee on Climate Change’s 2050 carbon budgets. Sadly, the content of our energy policy (EP) does not deliver its good intention. As a recent IGov blog stated, GB may be talking the talk, but we are not walking the walk. Even worse,
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New Thinking: Reset the reset (1) – we need institutional governance reform, and we need it now
Reset the reset (1) – we need institutional governance reform, and we need it now Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 14th March 2017 This is the first of a series of 3 blogs, the other two are: Aligning Content with Intent – BEIS and the Regulator have to sort out their relationship and roles; and Walking the Walk: we need to agree a DER assessment process and a methodology to value DER which fits with a smart and flexible energy system. GB energy policy is dissolving into a muddled, mire of siloed, non-joined-up policy statements and calls for evidence
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New Thinking: The Embedded Generator Saga and Codes Governance
Transformation is about walking the walk, not just talking the talk – the embedded generator saga and codes governance Matthew Lockwood, IGov Team, 13th March 2017 A major row has blown up over the apparently obscure issue of ‘embedded benefits’. These are payments that are made to electricity generators attached to the distribution network, as opposed to the higher voltage transmission network, so called because these generators are ‘embedded’ further down the system closer to sources of electricity demand. They are also sometimes called distributed generators. Technically, embedded benefits are based on the contribution made
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Submission: Ofgem Call for Evidence on future electricity system operator arrangements
Ofgem call for Evidence on Future arrangements for the electricity system operator: its role and structure Submission from Matthew Lockwood and Catherine Mitchell, Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Introduction The Energy Policy Group (EPG) of the University of Exeter is pleased to respond to Ofgem’s Call for Evidence (CfE) on Future arrangements for the electricity system operator. Issues of innovation and governance within energy systems form a major focus for EPG research, and in particular the four-year RCUK funded project Innovation and Governance for a Secure and Sustainable Economy (IGov, 2012-2016), which has now
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Book Chapter: Defining and Projecting EU Energy Policy
Book Chapter: Defining and Projecting EU Energy Policy New book chapter from Caroline Kuzemko and Amelia Hadfield: Defining and Projecting EU Energy Policy pp 21-50 in Jakub M. Godzimirski (editor) EU Leadership in Energy and Environmental Governance – Global and Local Challenges and Responses, published by Palgrave Macmillian. For more information visit the Palgrave wesbite Published Oct 2015 This edited collection focuses on the impact of the changing global distribution of power on the EU’s energy policy and ability to project its approach to energy-related issues abroad. It maps the EU’s changing position on global energy, the impact of various
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Book Chapter: The Great British Energy Transition?
New book chapter from Caroline Kuzemko: Chpt 15. The Great British Energy Transition? in Looney, Robert E (Editor) Handbook of Transitions to Energy and Climate Security, published by Routledge. For more information visit the Routledge website. An original contribution to our understanding of a phenomenon that is reshaping the world, this title thoroughly discusses the transformation of the energy security policy arena brought on by two dramatic developments – the increased potential availability of energy in many parts of the world on the supply side, and on the demand side increasing concerns over the harmful
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