White paper

  • Commercial and market outlook

    A look back at 2020

    As we take our first steps into 2021, we look back at the biggest developments in the UK energy markets in 2020, setting us up for the significant year ahead. As 2019 turned into 2020, we were still waiting for the Energy White Paper (EWP), a document which had been...

  • Announcement

    Cornwall Insight comments on the Energy White Paper

    Commenting on the government's release of the Energy White Paper, which sets out plans to decarbonise the UK's energy system, Gareth Miller, CEO of Cornwall Insight, said: “The Energy White Paper maps out the biggest change to the energy markets since the Electricity Act of 1989. Many of the headlines...

  • Announcement

    Celebration: Cornwall Insight wins second FT award

    Tom Palmer, our managing consultant, discusses our recent success of achieving a bronze award for consulting from the Financial Times for the second year running. Last week we discovered that for the second year running we have been rated in the top 20 Management Consultants for Energy, Utilities and Environment...

  • Commercial and market outlook

    Energy policy: a growing schism between Scotland and the UK

    Scottish Public Finance Minister Kate Forbes announced the Scottish Budget 2020-21 in a statement on 6 February. This revealed a significant package of funding to accelerate Scotland’s transition to a net zero economy. With the UK Budget due to be announced on 11 March, the Scottish government has presented tax...

  • Commercial and market outlook

    Energy policy in 2019 – net zero and no White Paper

    2019 was the year in which we were promised that the Energy White Paper would be published, with “early summer” the proposed release time. Then, on 12 June, Theresa May, as one of her final acts as Prime Minister, announced legislation to commit the UK to achieving net zero greenhouse...

  • Commercial and market outlook

    Editor’s Pick | Unplugged: stakeholders up the pressure on White Paper

    A month is a long time in politics. The euphoria surrounding the introduction and passage of the legislation for 2050 net zero target has proved short-lived, and the government has been pushed very much onto the back foot following the publication of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC)’s 2019 scorecard...

  • Commercial and market outlook

    Rocket man: powering up the white paper

    On 17 June 2019 our CEO Gareth Miller spoke on the panel at a joint event with law firm TLT on Clean Energy Growth. Many of the key themes set out by Gareth were echoed in this week’s Energy Spectrum, in which he discussed the government’s decision last week to...

  • Low carbon generation

    The GB nuclear power policy merry-go-round?

    Over the past 30 years successive governments have sought to create a policy framework to accommodate investment in nuclear power in competitive wholesale markets: Following a long-running public enquiry Sizewell B is the last nuclear power station to be commissioned pre-privatizationThe Conservative Party 1987 manifesto committed to privatise the electricity...

  • Commercial and market outlook

    Electricity Markets in Transition | A Cornwall Insight and Gowling WLG White Paper

    Cornwall Insight and Gowling WLG have co-authored a thought leadership paper on Electricity Markets in Transition. The focus is on key technology innovations either currently at play, or which can be reasonably be foreseen and what this means for innovators, market participants, and the regulatory and policy setting. The paper,...