Interesting links, articles, news and blog posts sent out to members on 18/12/23.
Report: Fuel Poverty Evidence 2023 – Fuel Poverty Research Network
December 2023. A summary of all the evidence collected and shared on fuel poverty from winter 2022 to winter 2023 by the Fuel Poverty Evidence project and Fuel Poverty Research Network (PDF version):
Link: https://www.fuelpovertyresearch.net/comment/fuel-poverty-evidence-2023-pdf-version/
News: Energy bills could rise by £16 to cover customers’ debts – BBC News Online
16 December 2023, Dearbail Jordan. Households face paying extra on energy bills to cover customers’ bad debts under plans by the industry regulator:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67725424
Consultation: Energy price cap wholesale costs review – Ofgem
15 December 2023. Ofgem wants to hear your views about their proposals for the wholesale costs included in the energy price cap:
Link: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/energy-price-cap-wholesale-costs-review
Consultation: Policy direction for the Future System Operator’s regulatory framework – Ofgem
14 December 2023. Ofgem are consulting on their policy direction for the regulatory framework for the FSO, including the key features of its financial regulation and their emerging thinking on our wider regulatory approach:
Consultation: Ofgem’s draft Forward Work Programme for 2024 and 2025 – Ofgem
14 December 2023. Ofgem are consulting on their proposed Forward Work Programme for 2024 and 2025. They would like views from people with an interest in their revised strategic framework and their proposed work programme for the year ahead:
Link: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/consultation-ofgems-draft-forward-work-programme-2024-and-2025
Policy paper: Hydrogen production delivery roadmap – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
14 December 2023. This roadmap sets out how we expect the hydrogen production landscape to evolve towards 2035:
Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hydrogen-production-delivery-roadmap
News: ENA sets out industry plan to speed up grid connections and release enough capacity to decarbonise Great Britain’s power grid – Energy Network Association
12 December 2023. Great Britain’s energy network operators have set out their delivery commitments that will enable fair and faster connections for all customers, and which will be delivered in 2024:
Link: https://www.energynetworks.org/newsroom/rising-to-britains-net-zero-challenge-report
News: COP28 pledges not enough to limit global warming to 1.5C, IEA warns – City AM
10 December 2023, Rhodri Morgan. Pledges made at COP28 to cut fossil fuel emissions will not be enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, according to one of the world’s foremost energy bodies:
Link: https://www.cityam.com/cop28-pledges-not-enough-to-limit-global-warming-to-1-5c-iea-warns/
News: Opec rails against fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 in leaked letters – Guardian Online
8 December 2023, Damian Carrington. Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk:
Guidance: UK battery strategy – Department for Business and Trade
6 December 2023. The UK battery strategy sets out the government’s vision for the UK to achieve a globally competitive battery supply chain by 2030:
Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-battery-strategy
News: Metro mayors back Ofgem’s regional energy planning reform – Future Net Zero
4 December 2023, Dimitris Mavrokefalidis. Metro mayors representing almost a third of the UK’s population have endorsed Ofgem’s regional energy planning reform, aiming to streamline local planning and cut red tape:
Link: https://www.futurenetzero.com/2023/12/04/metro-mayors-back-ofgems-regional-energy-planning-reform/
News: Sellafield: ‘bottomless pit of hell, money and despair’ at Europe’s most toxic nuclear site – Guardian Online
4 December 2023, Anna Isaac and Alex Lawson. Described as a nuclear Narnia, the site is a source of economic support for Cumbria – and a longstanding international safety concern:
News: Cop28 chief says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels – The Independent Online
4 December 2023, Stuti Mishra and Louise Boyle. The remarks were met with some dismay by climate scientists and activists at the Dubai summit:
News: Greenhouse gas emissions soar, with China, US and India most at fault – The Observer in the Guardian Online
3 December 2023, Fiona Harvey, Oliver Milman and Damian Carrington. Satellite tracking data shows many countries and firms do not provide accurate figures:
Press release: Councils pilot net zero projects with £19 million government backing – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, HM Treasury, Gareth Davies MP, and Lord Callanan
30 November 2023. Local Net Zero Accelerator pilots will help combined authorities deliver green initiatives such as retrofitting homes and installing solar panels: