Tom Grimwood

Ofgem has pushed back the date when National Grid and SP Energy Networks will begin incurring penalties for late delivery of their Eastern Green Link 1 project by almost two months. The transmission owners had originally requested a penalty exemption period of 480 days. Ofgem initially intended to deny the request…

The rejection of a proposal that would have reduced the locational variation in transmission charges represents “yet another failure by Ofgem” to resolve “long-standing” problems with the current arrangements, Scottish Renewables has warned. The trade body said the decision “sends a deeply concerning message to developers in Scotland already grappling…

The prospective surge in demand from data centres could pose a significant dilemma for the government and Ofgem, industry figures have told Utility Week. They made the comments in response to an open letter published by Ofgem last week setting out its initial thoughts on how to address a significant…

ADE: Demand, the demand focused arm of the Association for Decentralised Energy, has launched a new industry board to drive and monitor progress towards the government’s Clean Power 2030 targets, in particular through the delivery of its Clean Flexibility Roadmap. The trade body said the Consumer-Led Clean Power Industry Progress…

The two rounds of Contracts for Difference auctions currently taking place will both head down one of the slower tracks in their respective timetables after at least one developer applying to each lodged an appeal over the disqualification of a project. If no projects had been disqualified, the Department for…

Energy UK has urged the government to divert of £1.5 billion of the £13.2 billion budget for its Warm Homes Plan to support low-cost loans for green home upgrades. In a report, the trade body claims that using this money to subsidise financing, rather than upfront costs, could enable up to…

The application window for the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction round has now opened. It will remain open for just over three weeks until 27 August.

Consumers installing a package of green home upgrades can recoup their initial investment and start seeing overall savings within just five years, according to new analysis from Ovo Energy. The supplier claimed the net savings for a typical household can quickly mount beyond then, reaching almost £12,000 after a decade and…

The government will face a “major problem” in achieving its Clean Power 2030 target if the upcoming round of Contracts for Difference (CfD) auctions falls short, one of its advisers has acknowledged. David Joffe, chief energy systems adviser for the Clean Power Mission Control within the Department for Energy Security…

The government should not reject zonal power pricing for fear of creating a “postcode lottery,” a senior figure from Citizens Advice has urged. Andy Manning, who leads the energy, networks and systems at the charity, said differences in zonal power prices may be offset by existing variations in network charges,…

The UK is set to surge from a laggard to a leader in the electrification of households by the end of this decade, according to analysis of seven major European markets by LCP Delta. This is despite the UK being off track to meet its targets of installing 600,000 heat…

In the latest round up of the weekend papers, deputy prime minister Angela Rayner says the government will adopt a “carrot and stick” approach to planning vital energy infrastructure such as pylons, environment secretary Steve Reed vows to clean up Lake Windemere following criticism over sewage spills, and the debate…

Charities and community energy groups have been invited to apply for a share of £40 million of funding being offered in the eleventh funding round of Ofgem’s energy redress scheme. Organisations in England, Scotland and Wales can now apply for funding through five different streams

The smart meter rollout is heading into “a digital cul-de-sac" unless the government fixes the fundamental problems that have plagued the programme from the start. Former shadow energy minister Alan Whitehead said transforming the programme into a mandatory, area-based rollout carried out by network operators would be relatively quick and…

Octopus Energy has outlined proposals to ensure energy intensive industries would be better off in all areas of the country under zonal pricing. It comes after multiple industry trade bodies, including Make UK, Steel UK and British Glass, sent an open letter to energy secretary Ed Miliband recently warning that zonal…

The code managers which will be responsible for proposing and developing changes to energy industry codes will all operate on a not-for-profit basis, the government has confirmed.  The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said this will ensure that code managers focus on meeting the needs of industry and…

An estimated 2.9 million properties still need to be upgraded to meet the government’s target of raising the energy efficiency rating of rental homes to at least C by 2030, according to new analysis from Rightmove.  At an average cost of more than £8,000 per property, the company put the…

A compliance scheme for providers of domestic flexibility, including energy suppliers, should be established to protect consumers, build trust in the emerging industry and, if needed, lay the foundations for formal regulation. That’s the finding of a new report produced as part of the Ofgem-funded HOMEflex project, which has already…

Ofgem has given the green light to a modification to the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) to ensure household and small business customers on microgrids are able to switch to a third-party supplier. Although there are already arrangements in place to enable them to do so, the regulator said it has…

Ofgem has proposed a review of the ring-fencing arrangements for energy networks to prevent the emergence of problems that have been seen in the retail and water sectors in recent years. The regulator said changes in the ownership and corporate structure of energy networks have reduced the level of scrutiny…