Ofgem and decarbonisation


The UK sustainable energy organisation Regen (https://www.regen.co.uk) sent an update to its members on 24 July commenting on proposals made by the energy regulator Ofgem in a document entitled “Getting more out of our electricity networks by reforming access and forward-looking charging arrangements”

Regen commented:

“A key limitation of Ofgem’s approach is that it focuses just on efficient use of the network. There is no objective in this work around decarbonisation and clean growth. This tends to lead to a narrow focus on current network costs rather than a strategic focus on what the future system needs which leads to proposals for increasing costs for distributed generation. We would like to see a test against the objective to decarbonise the UK’s energy system as set out in the Clean Growth Plan and Climate Change Act.”

See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-growth-strategy
and https://www.theccc.org.uk/tackling-climate-change/the-legal-landscape/the-climate-change-act/

These sources might provide a basis on which an argument supporting a broadening of Ofgem’s view could be constructed by those interested in a low carbon future for the UK.

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