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Publications
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Briefing: Enabling the transformation of the energy system
Enabling the transformation of the energy system: Recommendations from IGov Rebecca Willis, Catherine Mitchell, Richard Hoggett, Jess Britton, Helen Poulter IGov, University of Exeter 12th September 2019* Over the next few decades, the UK will need to steer a major transformation of the energy system, in order to maximise the benefits of innovation, bring about rapid decarbonisation in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and ensure that the system meets all people’s needs. The current picture of governance is confused, with multiple advisory and regulatory bodies, working to different objectives, overseeing different aspects
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Submission: Ofgem RIIO2 Methodology
Ofgem: RIIO-2 sector specific methodology consultation Submission from the Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Catherine Mitchell, Rebecca Willis, Richard Hoggett, Richard Lowes, Rachel Bray, Helen Poulter and Jess Britton Section 1: Introduction and Summary The Energy Policy Group (EPG) of the University of Exeter is pleased to give our comments on Ofgem’s RIIO2 Sector Specific Methodology (SSM). The EPG has previously given its comments on Ofgem’s RIIO Framework Consultation and has written various blogs pressing for more ambition with respect to RIIO2’s environmental output requirements. We have also argued that we find the
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Submission: Ofgem Targeted Charging Review
Submission to Ofgem Targeted charging review: minded to decision and draft impact assessment Prof Catherine Mitchell, Richard Hoggett, Dr Becky Willis, Jess Britton Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Summary This is a submission to the Targeted Charging Review: minded to decision and draft impact assessment [1] from Catherine Mitchell of the University of Exeter’s Energy Policy Group and its Innovation and Governance (IGov) project[2]. Ofgem’s Minded To document comes to two preferred options: one related to fixed charges (the preferred outcome), and the other related to some form of capacity charge. Much has been
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Report: Changing actor dynamics and emerging value propositions in the UK electricity retail market
Changing actor dynamics and emerging value propositions in the UK electricity retail market Published: January 2019 Recognising the pace and scale of change in consumer offerings in the energy sector the IGov project have updated the review of non-traditional business models (NTBMs) which Ofgem undertook in 2015. This involved mapping the current energy system actors based on a review and classification of domestic and non-domestic business models, particularly in relation to electricity supply (undertaken by Jeffrey Hardy). We then analysed these developments in relation to domestic supply and reviewed potential governance implications (undertaken by Jess
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Submission: CCC – Building a zero carbon economy
Building a zero carbon economy – Call for Evidence IGov response to the Committee on Climate Change Dr Rebecca Willis & Professor Catherine Mitchell, Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Summary IGov, a project of the University of Exeter’s Energy Policy Group, examines innovation and governance in the energy system. We focus on the fundamental, rapid energy system change that is happening at the moment, driven by technological, social and environmental factors; and examine the shifts in governance that are required in order to meet crucial goals, including carbon reduction. The evidence offered to
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Letter: Wylva nuclear power plant
Scrapping of nuclear plant should see UK renewables filling the void Readers respond to news that Hitachi has pulled out of the proposed Wylva nuclear power plant in Anglesey Letters in the Guardian: Fri 18 Jan 2019 The pulling out of Hitachi from the proposed Wylva nuclear power plant is a good thing for energy policy – not a serious blow as said in the article (Hitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in Wales, 18 January). Nuclear power is now one of the most expensive form of electricity there is. But beyond the economics, it no
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Submission: Ofgem electricity network access and charging
Ofgem Consultation: Getting more out of our electricity networks through reforming access and forward-looking charging arrangements Rachel Bray and Catherine Mitchell Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Summary Running the energy system costs society and the customer a certain total amount every year. That sum of that cost is currently derived in a particular way – transmission costs, distribution costs, including charging costs, wholesale market costs etc – and via a certain methodology and regulatory mechanism and then paid for via customer bills before finally being reimbursed to different parts of the energy system by suppliers
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Submission: BEIS Consultation on the Feed-in-Tariffs Scheme
BEIS Consultation on the Feed-in-Tariffs Scheme Helen Poulter, Catherine Mitchell and Rachel Bray Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter Summary The University of Exeter Energy Policy Group (EPG) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the closure of the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) scheme. We do not support the closure of the FiT scheme. We have 6 main concerns: 1) The small scale FiT has been a way for communities, small companies and housholders to become involved in the transformation from the ‘dirty’ to the ‘clean’ energy system. Delivering the Committee of Climate Change greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions
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Submission: RIIO2 Framework Consultation
Ofgem RIIO-2 Framework Consultation Submission from Helen Poulter, Catherine Mitchell and Richard Lowes Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter 1. Summary The University of Exeter Energy Policy Group (EPG) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the RIIO-2 Framework. With this consultation, we feel that Ofgem has missed an opportunity to make the changes to RIIO2, and the wider, matching governance changes that we recommended in our response to the Open Letter[1]. Overall, we still feel that the proposed RIIO2 regulatory mechanism, as set out in the consultation, is still fundamentally flawed and ill-suited to
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Submission: BEIS Call for Evidence on the Helm Review
Submission by the Energy Policy Group (EPG) of the University of Exeter to the BEIS Call for Evidence on the Helm Review. Catherine Mitchell, Helen Poulter, Matthew Lockwood, Bridget Woodman, Rachel Bray, Richard Lowes, Jess Britton and Richard Hoggett. January 2018 Summary The table below sets out the issues that the EPG agrees with in the Helm Review, and the issues we do not agree with. On some issues, we semi-agree with Helm. In these cases, we tend to agree with the problem but not with his solution. ISSUE DO NOT AGREE
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