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soapbox | Utility Week
Debate continues over how one of the key initiatives in the Energy Bill - a capacity mechanism - should be handled. Drawn up in response to fears of future electricity supply shortages, the capacity market would allow government to pay generators who can guarantee to supply electricity, and to custo..
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soapbox | Utility Week
One thing about sitting with your nose pressed very close to a book of legislative clauses for three weeks is that it gets you thinking about some of the more arcane bits of what is in front of you. There are several - ahem - fairly obscure bits of the upcoming legislation that I think are really go..
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soapbox | Utility Week
In the first week of the committee stage of the Energy Bill, we heard evidence from key parties: investors, the renewables industry, generators, the big six supply companies, the Climate Change Committee, non-governmental organisations, and civil society. We even heard evidence from the ..
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soapbox | Utility Week
In December, I was on a panel at the Environment Agency workshop that was part of the CIWEM water innovation conference. The main thing that came out was that there is no shortage of imagination or ambition within the sector, but that politics, regulation and the financial framework often constrain ..
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Electricity | Utility Week
The Energy Bill was published on 29 November but fell short of including a target to decarbonise the energy sector in the UK by 2030. The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) believes this is a missed opportunity...
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soapbox | Utility Week
The energy sector has always been heavily involved in debate. From the heady days of privatisation and the start of competition, through the numerous consultations, reviews and energy bills that have followed, the players in the energy sector have met ministers, drafted submissions and argued their ..
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soapbox | Utility Week
Since privatisation, the logic of an integrated clean and dirty water enterprise structure has dominated in the water sector. This was underpinned by the logic of scale economies, so necessary to utilities originating in a public service ethos. Is that about to change? In the "dustbin" solid waste e..
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If anything more clearly sums up the need for change in the way water companies deal with their business customers, it is disconnections...
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soapbox | Utility Week
As we begin a winter that scientists predict will be one of the coldest and dampest for a generation, we are facing an energy bill crisis...
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UK | Utility Week
Utility-scale solar power is now cheaper than many other renewable technologies, including offshore wind and anaerobic digestion. With 4,000 square kilometres of roof space in the UK and abundant brownfield and poor quality agricultural land, the ground - and the roofs - are set for the solar revolu..
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