Leader: the energy system is being transformed in a political vacuum

While political rows continue over the prospect of an energy price cap, a potentially far more important conversation is taking place on the network side of the energy sector. Transformative change is blasting its way through business-as-usual for the power system, with disruptive behaviours and technologies already ushering in new players and new business models, and that process can only accelerate. You won’t read about it in the national media or any political party’s manifesto, but by 2030, the way consumers interact with the power system will have profoundly changed.