Regulation & Policy
Promoting flexible generation and demand side response is likely to be more effective in helping the EU cope with three energy policy challenges – security of supply, decarbonisation and affordability – than capacity mechanisms, Simon Skillings, Senior Associate at Third…
Capacity payments from the UK's planned capacity mechanism need to be brought forward from their expected 2018/19 date in order to help keep existing plants operational, Keith MacLean, Policy and Research Director at SSE said at a conference organised by…
Scottish Powers' Director of Regulation, Rupert Steele has called on the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) policy to "maintain momentum" to deliver a workable scheme for a Capacity Mechanism and Contracts for Differences (CfDs) in 2014, though…
The UK Government's Energy Bill which includes contracts to develop low carbon generation and market-wide capacity contracts is expected to pass through the House of Commons "within the next month or two", Tim Lord, Security of Supply Team at the…
German chancellor Angela Merkel has admitted the country's clean-energy prone needs an overhaul, including a cut in subsidies for renewables paid by consumers via the EEG levy, to ensure that state-of-the-art gas fired power plant can operate at a profit.
The European Commission has warned Ireland that it must fully transpose the Electricity Directive of the third energy package into law or face referral to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The directive contains provisions for the proper functioning of…
Germany's 'green' energy policies are failing to provide their intended emissions reductions , says John Rhys, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), arguing that phasing out nuclear will continue to increase coal use significantly. "Germany…
A coalition of 10 US states and 5 cities lead by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has filed a court brief urging the US Supreme Court at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and…
Gas-fired distributed power projects in the UK will benefit from specific support schemes, including capacity mechanisms, which are forthcoming as part of a new regulatory package stipulated under the Electricity Market Reform, says Dr. Jim Fitzgerald, Associate Partner at The…
Unless new efficient policy measures are implemented, about 40 percent of Spain's installed Combined Heat and Power (CHP) capacity is at risk of being shut-down in 2015, Javier Rodríguez Morales, Director General of Spain's Cogeneration Association (Acogen) told Gas to…
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