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Home supply and services
How has Ofgem’s focus on vulnerability evolved?
Over the last few months, the focus on protecting consumers has stepped up as Ofgem begins to take strides toward improving treatment of vulnerable customers. In this week’s blog, we discuss some of Ofgem’s recent work around protecting customers, including its Vulnerability Summit, and most recently looking at the calls…
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Regulation and policy
Free Energy market alert | Last night’s Federal budget
The Federal Budget released yesterday (9 May 2023) is the first full-year budget from the new Labor Federal Government. Like the mini-budget released last October, the budget signals the new Government’s intertwining climate change and energy ambitions. Cornwall Insight Australia has released a concise Energy Market Alert on the budget,…
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Announcement
Latest FCAS price forecast released
Cornwall Insight Australia released the latest Frequency Control Ancillary Service (FCAS) price curves for Q1 2023, published on 8 May 2023. Available to download is an excerpt reporting the headlining power price trends from the FCAS insight service. We hope this information is of value-add to you and your business….
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Low carbon generation
REGOs and Decarbonisation
Though this is not the original intention of the REGO scheme, REGOs have increasingly become seen as a mechanism to provide support to increase the build-out of renewable generation in GB. This report therefore examines the question “has trading in REGOs provided an effective incentive for investment in new renewable…
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Regulation and policy
WACC-A-MOLE –Implications of the rising cost of capital for the fifth round of the Contracts for Difference scheme
Soaring inflation and interest rates, combined with supply chain issues and labour shortages, have pushed up the cost of capital and increased the costs needed to finance renewable projects. With the latest round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme set to open to applications this month many in the…
