RIIO2

Watchdogs warn CMA decision will affect more than water bills

Consumer watchdogs have welcomed the CMA's increased spending allowances for projects that were important to consumers but warned its overall stance could set a precedent for other regulated companies and add to the pressure on household finances.

Covid-19 has created a revolution in the electricity sector: regulation must keep up

The pandemic has created a unique opportunity for Ofgem to provide a framework that embraces flexibility and incentivises networks to facilitate the transition to net zero, writes James Crouch of Burns & McDonnell

Citizens Advice says RIIO2 proposals still ‘too generous’ to networks

RIIO2 cuts ‘will hit vulnerable customers’

‘Skewed’ incentives will leave networks scared to take risks

WWU says cuts to gas mains replacement work pose ‘unacceptable’ safety risk

Not as easy as it looks

In a price control, companies will always claim the regulator has made errors but the RIIO2 draft determinations do appear to contain an unprecedently high number of basic arithmetic mistakes, says Maxine Frerk.

SPEN threatens CMA appeal if Ofgem doesn’t budge

SP Energy Networks (SPEN) has warned Ofgem it could appeal to the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) over the regulator’s “manifestly flawed” take on its business plan for the next price control. The electricity transmission company has demanded a revised draft determination by early October correcting what it claims are errors on Ofgem’s part and reversing a £15 million business plan penalty.

Renewable UK says current RIIO2 plans will hold up vital network expansions

It’s all downside and very little upside – Nicola Shaw blasts Ofgem’s sums

The brooding row between Ofgem and networks over the draft price determinations would appear to strike at the very heart of energy companies’ ambitions to Build Back Better – no more so than at National Grid as executive director Nicola Shaw tells Denise Chevin

Ofgem accused of ignoring stakeholders in RIIO2 proposals

SSE: Net zero delay is not zero cost

ED2: How local, how flexible, how fast?

Northern Powergrid has launched the first stage in compiling its business plan for the RIIO ED2 price control. Utility Week speaks to the company’s policy and markets director, Patrick Erwin, about a tiered approach to engaging consumers, learnings from the gas and transmission networks and acting as a “force for good”.

Scarsella backs uncertainty mechanisms for ED2

RIIO2: A big idea?