Gas networks

System Operator ‘should be part of National Energy Agency’

Plotting the course to Britain’s first hydrogen town

Chris Train, Energy Networks Association’s Gas Goes Green Champion, writes for Utility Week about the launch of the Hydrogen Networks Plan.

Kwarteng: Hydrogen can enter gas grid before 2030

Ofgem calls for full ESO separation

Gas networks release joint plan for hydrogen conversion

Ofgem consults on new short-haul discount for gas transmission

ENA consults on Open Networks workplan for 2021

Centrica CFO quits after seven months

Making more of data to improve capital delivery

Brearley: We have to adapt as ambitions change

Utility Week speaks to Ofgem chief executive Jonathan Brearley about RIIO2, CMA appeals, an official net-zero duty, the future of the price cap and his goal to create a more agile regulator.

Gas industry calls for ‘hydrogen-ready’ boiler mandate from 2025

RIIO2 business plan incentive ‘remains a mystery’

A former partner at Ofgem has said she is still mystified as to why the regulator handed some companies penalties and others rewards under the new business plan incentive mechanism for the RIIO2 price controls. Maxine Frerk said Ofgem needs to provide more clarity on exactly how networks’ business plans are judged. Its chief executive, Jonathan Brearley, told Utility Week some companies had initially failed to show their plans were in the interest of consumers.

£150m pipeline under River Humber begins delivering gas

A £150 million gas pipeline located 30 metres underneath the River Humber has become operational, National Grid has announced. The Feeder 9 project was begun in 2016 with joint venture project partners Skanska, A.Hak and Porr. It replaces a trench-laid gas pipe which had become exposed.

National Grid sees spending allowances rise by £2.45bn  

‘Civil service solution’ enough to avert RIIO2 appeals