HeyJaredThe Unbalancing Mechanism
Decarbonisation is hard. Too much of our current energy policy framework shies away from confronting some of the choices involved. I want to highlight some of these challenges and set out where decisions are needed, to unbalance the world as it stands.
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Flex Off (opens the original)
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I hate, hate, hate the term ‘flex’. It’s a term of art used in the power sector to denote things that you can turn up and turn down. Using it marks you as a member of a cool1 in-group and absolutely baffles the general public. Lamentably, it also lends itself really well to puns, so my hate is largely about public understanding but also jealousy at not being the person to come up with ‘<a href="https://project-leo.co.uk/blog/strongflex-appeal-how-can-the-eso-demand-flexibility-service-shape-the-
A Howling in the Exchange (opens the original)
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This is the final part of a series on the GB wholesale electricity market. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 here.Following on from our previous discussion of the inception of NETA and the instruments deployed as part of the Electricity Market Reform process, we are now ready to identify the core problem facing the electricity who
A Whisper in the Turbine Hall (opens the original)
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This is part 3 of a series on the GB wholesale electricity market. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here.We are back at the start of the 2010s, and we are ready to tackle a two-headed problem. Last time we looked at how the Government used Contracts for Difference to bring on low carbon generation. As opponents of action on climate change like to say, often with a tone that implies this is a tremendous revelation, we also need a solution for when the wind
A Rattling Between The Pylons (opens the original)
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This is part 2 of a series on the GB electricity wholesale market. You can find part 1 here.Last time we discussed the origins of the electricity wholesale market in the 2000s. I now want to bring you forward in time to the early 2010s, the era of Cameron, the London Olympics, Mumford & Sons and the Great British Bake Off1. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.c
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