The new UK Government has taken several recent steps in its mission to achieve security of supply of affordable clean energy. We discuss its autumn flurry of energy and infrastructure related announcements in our article New...more
12/11/2024
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UK energy and infrastructure developments have been coming thick and fast as the new Government gets its feet under the table. With the Autumn Budget headlining a flurry of announcements on energy and infrastructure policy...more
12/11/2024
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Our second annual study into the scale of the financing needed to decarbonize the global economy reveals the challenge is bigger than previously thought.
- Our research shows we are USD6 trillion a year short of what needs...more
11/12/2024
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The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has released the results of the Sixth Allocation Round (AR6) of the UK Government’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. Altogether, 131 low-carbon electricity...more
The 2024 General Election is imminent and all four of the biggest political parties have now released their election manifestos. With the push to net zero remaining critical in accordance with the UK’s domestic and...more
6/21/2024
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Until now, however, no comprehensive estimate existed of the of that opportunity, (or, to put it another way, the size of the financing gap between committed spending and the investment needed to deliver Net Zero by 2050...more
9/25/2023
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Wholesale electricity markets were developed decades ago for a world of centralised supply and cheap gas. Today the landscape is much more diverse – so the model must be redesigned....more
The market has been waiting for the Energy White Paper since June 2018 (even before the Russia World Cup saw England’s semi-final “levelling up” at the hands of Croatia and Boris Johnson’s elevation as Prime Minister). At...more
On 11 November 2020 the UK Government published its groundbreaking National Security and Investment Bill (Bill). The Bill will drastically expand the Government’s powers to scrutinise investment on national security grounds,...more