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Utility Week examines the changes to spending allowances in Ofgem’s RIIO2 final determinations, including an almost £2.45 billion rise for National Grid. The figure is just over half of the £4.8 billion in requested expenditure which the regulator disallowed at the draft determination stage in July.
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Wholesale electricity prices should be set locally instead of nationally, an influential right-of-centre thinktank has urged. The Policy Exchange has also called for reforms of both the Contracts for Difference and Capacity Market regimes.
Gridserve has opened the first of 100 “Electric Forecourts” the company plans to build over next five years at Braintree in Essex. The station has the capacity to charge 36 electric vehicles at the same time at rates of up to 350kW.
Conor Maher-McWilliams, head of flexibility at Ovo’s smart technology arm Kaluza, discusses the company’s direct-to-car smart charging trial with Bosch, why some networks are easier to deal with than others, and how it is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to better understand flexibility in heating.
Boris Johnson's Green Industrial Revolution is good news, but there's an important aspect that needs to go on the list, says PA Consulting's Ted Hopcroft
Former Ofgem chief executive Dermot Nolan has told Utility Week that Boris Johnson’s green plan has “shone the spotlight even more brightly on RIIO-ED2”. He pointed to the move to bring forward the ban on petrol and diesel car sales to 2030 as having major ramifications for DNO’s business plans for the next price control and said there will “inevitably be tensions” around the levels of investment required.
SSE’s chief executive has told Utility Week the company is “moving forward” with a full or partial sale of its 33.3 per cent stake in gas distribution network SGN. Alistair Phillips-Davies was speaking on the back of the company’s half-year results.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has begun using drones to monitor more than 64,000 kilometres of overhead powerlines in its license area in central southern England.
