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Presentation: Introduction to Code Governance
Introduction to Code Governance From: Matthew Lockwood To: Code Governance for the 21st Century, Reform Club, London, 16th October 2015 Outline History Issues CMA Energy Investigation Possible Remedies Ofgem Further Review Other proposals Some principles for governance Codes in the wider governance landscape A possible model for code governance Download presentation: Codes governance workshop intro Oct
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New Thinking: Progressive Regulation – What Future For Ofgem?
Progressive Regulation – What Future For OFGEM? Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 26th October 2015 Dermot Nolan, the CEO of Ofgem, when talking to the recent 2015 Annual Energy UK conference, set out a progressive energy vision for the future. It was a broad-ranging overview exploring the issues which the Regulator finds himself having to deal with. Importantly though, he also illuminated just how much we are all in this together. Long term solutions for a legitimate, sustainable energy system have to be bought into by all stakeholders. His final comment was: ‘I invite all of
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New Thinking: Fit-for-purpose GB Energy Governance
Fit-for-purpose GB Energy Governance – what is it? and what to call it – DEG or OBR? Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 13th October 2015 IGov published a Working Paper in March 2015 called Public Value Energy Governance: establishing an institutional framework which better fits a sustainable, secure and affordable energy system which included a ‘straw’ model for a restructured institutional framework for a GB Governance system. We suggest this framework is fit for purpose, as opposed to the current governance system which is not. Governance is here taken to mean the policies, institutions, rules and
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Presentation: Tomorrow’s Utilities – what future?
Tomorrow’s Utilities – what future? From: Catherine Mitchell To: Tomorrow’s Utilities: What Future, or Will there be a Future? Cornwall Energy Event, 6 Oct 2015, London Outline GB an outlier What future for conventional utilities? What does this depend on? Characteristics of future utilities Can conventional utilities continue to dominate if they change their BMs? Download presentation: Tomorrow’s Utilities – what future?  
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Presentation: Heat and the City Community
Heat and the City Community: The institutional roots of Danish energy conversion efficiency From: Matthew Lockwood To: University of Edinburgh, September 2015 Outline The two faces of Danish energy efficiency DH shares in residential heating Share of CHP in electricity generation Conventional story – the 1970s oil crisis as trigger Historical institutionalism Total heat demand The 1970s oil shocks as ‘critical juncture’ Policy response Politics of the 1970s ‘critical juncture’ Expansion of DH 1981-2013 Evolution – the return of decentralised CHP, the introduction of renewable fuels and new opportunities for balancing Conclusions and implications for UK  
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Book Chapter: Politicising UK energy: what ‘speaking energy security’ can do
New book chapter from Caroline Kuzemko: Politicising UK energy: what ‘speaking energy security’ can do in M. Flinders and M. Wood (eds) Tracing the Political – Depoliticisation, governance and the state, published by Policy Press. For more information visit the Policy Press website. Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or ‘quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators
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New Thinking: China Gives Priority to Green Dispatch
China Gives Priority to Green Dispatch Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 29th September 2015 Much has been talked about China possibly financing a portion of a GB nuclear power plant in the last few weeks. However, whilst China may be building some nuclear power plants – the support for them is small compared to the support given to renewables. Moreover, as was discussed in a recent blog, for technical reasons a dispatch choice has to be made. This choice can be set up to be made in all sorts of ways. These can be complementary to decentralised
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Book Chapter: Electricity Markets and their Regulatory Systems for a Sustainable Future
New book chapter from Catherine Mitchell: Electricity Markets and their Regulatory Systems for a Sustainable Future. In Ekins, P., Bradshaw, M., and Watson, J. (eds) Global Energy: Issues, Potentials, and Policy Implications. Oxford University Press. September 2015. For more information visit Oxford University Press. Energy, and access to energy, are essential to human life, civilisation and development. A number of energy issues – including energy security, energy prices and the polluting emissions for energy use – now have high prominence on global agendas of policy and diplomacy. In addressing these and other global energy issues, the purpose
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Presentation: Energy System of the Future
Energy System of the Future From: Catherine Mitchell To: SET Plan conference 2015- Research, innovation and competitiveness for the Energy Union, Luxembourg 21-22 September 2015 Outline Technology challenges System change & new opportunities Good Governance Research & Innovation Download presentation: CM SETPlan 2015 Conference Information: http://www.setplan2015.lu
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New Thinking: Saving Face
Saving Face Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 22nd September 2015 IGov is investigating the link between innovation and governance. Ideally we would like to produce our own theory of why it is some countries seem to be more able to move to a demand focused energy policy – in other words an energy policy which minimises the energy it uses. The idea behind IGov was to understand why it is that Britain – as opposed to many other countries – takes such unique decisions which tend to ignore best practice elsewhere and which tend to be relatively
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