Category: Networks
Significant network charging and network access reforms ahead – part II
Ofgem is exploring major changes to electricity network charging and access arrangements that will affect all users of the system from large businesses to households, from large transmission-connected... Read More
Significant network charging and network access reforms ahead – part I
Electricity network charging is facing its most significant reforms since the creation of the current NETA/BETTA system. Ofgem believes that current charging methodology creates distortions in the mar... Read More
Ofgem publishes next steps in network charging reform
Last week Ofgem published its “minded to” decision on electricity network charging reform as part of its Targeted Charging Review (“TCR”) into the way in which residual transmission charges ar... Read More
UKPN to test new voltage stabilisation technology
The challenges posed to electricity grids by adding increasing amounts of intermittent renewable generation are well known, and costly to manage, however a Scottish technology company claims to have t... Read More
Opening access to the Balancing Mechanism for smaller aggregated assets
National Grid recently published a roadmap to widening access to the Balancing Mechanism to smaller, distributed assets and demand-side response. The increasing de-centralisation of the electricity sy... Read More
Ofgem’s new consultation on network charging and access is an important step towards market reform
Ofgem has published the latest strand in its ongoing work on making network charging arrangements fit for purpose against a backdrop of significant changes to the nature and use of both transmission a... Read More
Win for Ofgem: application for juducial review into embedded benefits decision rejected
On Friday, Mr Justice Lavender handed down his Judgement on the application by a number of small electricity generators for a judicial review into Ofgem’s decision last year to limit the amount of s... Read More
Relying on interconnectors for security of supply carries risks
Last week Will Gardiner, chief executive of Drax Group, told the Guardian newspaper that Britain’s increasing reliance on electricity imports through the use of interconnectors is a threat to energy... Read More