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Submission: CMA Code Governance – info request to industry participants
CMA Code Governance: info request to industry participants Catherine Mitchell, Matthew Lockwood and Richard Hoggett, Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Introduction The University of Exeter Energy Policy Group (EPG), and in particular the Innovation and Governance project (IGov) within the EPG, has been very involved in the ongoing CMA Energy Market Investigation. Our original submission to the CMA’s Statement of Issues paper highlighted the problem of Codes in relation to competition and innovation within the GB Energy System. We then gave oral evidence, the summary of which is now up on the CMA’s website
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New Thinking: Energy System Change not Climate Change
Energy System Change not Climate Change Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 14th December 2015 COP21 has led to a new climate change policy agreement. While it could have been stronger, it could also have been weaker. The world had already tipped to a global discourse towards a sustainable energy future, based on renewables. What the Paris Agreement has done has strengthened that global discourse. The dominant underlying energy technology pathways of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) is towards more renewables. There will of course be outlier countries, like GB, who choose nuclear over renewables but
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Join the Energy Policy Group
Join the Energy Policy Group – two potential PhD Scholarships, 17th January 2016 application deadline 11th December 2015 The EPG is advertising for two PhD scholarships: Markets for Future Power Networks and Energy System Change and Energy Storage. Details are below, and the application deadline is 17 January 2016. The EPG is a small, very friendly energy group based on the Falmouth Campus of the University of Exeter. It is an absolutely wonderful, ‘cool’ place to live, particularly if you like social innovation, nature, walking, the sea, surfing and so on. The EPG provides an
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Paper: Climate Change Benchmarking – constructing a sustainable future?
Climate Change Benchmarking: constructing a sustainable future? By: Caroline Kuzemko Published in: Review of International Studies, 41, pp 969-992 doi:10.1017/S0260210515000418 Available online: 25 November 2015 Abstract This article analyses discourses on climate change and mitigation through the deconstruction of European Union (EU) rhetoric and practices on climate benchmarking. It critically examines the motivations behind climate benchmarking, the methods used to construct international benchmarks, and the reasons for variety in domestic compliance. Germany and the United Kingdom are analysed as cases where domestic politics drive very different reactions to the practice of climate mitigation, differences that have
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Paper: Codes Governance and Reform Discussion Paper
Codes Governance and Reform Discussion Paper IGov Team, 24th November 2015* This discussion paper summarises some of the key points that were raised at a recent cross industry workshop run by the Energy Policy Group on the future of gas and electricity code governance in October 2015. More details of the event are available on IGov events page. The paper provides: Background context on the main energy industry codes and standards in Great Britain A history of reform efforts A summary of the key issues raised at the Codes Governance Workshop covering: 1) Access to Information; 2) Code Simplification
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Presentation: Energy Policy – a global move to renewables and energy efficiency
Energy Policy – a global move to renewables and energy efficiency From: Catherine Mitchell To: Global Conversation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 12th November 2015 Outline The world is still fossil fuel dominated There are some rapid changes happening Renewables deployment is happening quicker than expected The way systems are operated is changing Flexibility, integration and decentralisation is increasingly important Utilities are restructuring Public discourse is changing Download presentation: New York Global Conversation Find out more about the University of Exeter Global Conversation
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New Thinking: Contemporary US Political Party Energy Politics
Contemporary US Political Party Energy Politics – still a lot to play for Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 10th November 2015 Just once in a while one goes to a meeting where one learns an awful lot in a short time. A three-person slot at a University of Columbia’s Energy Symposium about US energy politics last week was one of those wonderful knowledge transfer events – not really because of the deep knowledge base of the speakers – which is often the case – but, much more rarely, because the speakers (Heather Zichal and Jeffrey Kupfer)
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Agenda
Code Governance for the 21st Century Reform Club, London, 16th October 2015 9.30 – 10.00 Tea & Coffee 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and Roundtable Introductions Catherine Mitchell 10.15 – 10.45 Context and Introduction Matthew Lockwood 10.45 – 12.15 Session 1: Discussion on Code simplification, consolidation and administration Judith Ward (Chair) Five minute perspectives from: Chris Alexander, CAB Adam Richardson, Elexon Adam Carden, SSE Ritchard Hewitt, National Grid 12.15 – 13.00 Lunch 13.00 – 14.30 Session 2: Discussion on Code Governance Architecture Simon Roberts (Chair) Five minute perspectives from: Chris Welby, Good Energy Chris Harris, RWE Nigel Cornwall,
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Aims of Day
Aims for the Workshop We are hoping to have a focused discussion which leads to clear principles for reform of the code governance system and governance architecture to fit for the needs of a rapidly evolving energy system. The issues are very interlinked so it is impossible to have discussion sessions which are entirely separate. We have split the day into two sessions, as it seems to us that there are two broad issues which need to be clarified. Session 1: Code simplification, consolidation and administration Questions to consider: Given the number, length and complexity
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Attendees
Attendees First Surname Organisation Chris Alexander CAB Dorcas Batstone Independent Adam Carden SSE Nigel Cornwall Cornwall Energy Marion Ferrat Energy & Climate Change Committee Cian Fitzgerald Ovo Energy Chris Harris RWE Lewis Heather Ofgem Ritchard Hewitt National Grid Phil Hicken DECC Richard Hoggett University of Exeter Les Jenkins Joint Office of Gas Transporters Caroline Kuzemko University of Exeter Elizabeth Lawlor ElectraLink Matthew Lockwood University of Exeter Ken McRae Gemserv Catherine Mitchell University of Exeter Ben Nunez Competition and Markets Authority Joe Parsons DECC Adam Richardson Elexon Simon Roberts Centre Sustainable Energy James Soundraraju Ofgem Judith
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