Progress towards the creation of smarter and more flexible energy system has not been rapid enough, a number of industry associations have warned in a new report. The initial confidence in the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan published by the government and Ofgem in 2017, has since “faltered”. Failure to speed things up over the first half of this decade risks costing consumers £9 billion by 2050.
Progress on flexibility ‘too slow and too patchy’
