The Politics of Onshore Wind

The new Conservative Government has made curbing the growth of onshore wind one of its short-term priorities. On 18 June […]

By Adam Brown

Global perspectives on the energy sector

What is the future for traditional power utilities? What can Europe learn from the US experience of capacity markets? What […]

By Adam Brown

Two more milestones in the implementation of UK Electricity Market Reform (EMR) have been passed in the last 24 hours (15/16 December […]

By Adam Brown

DECC has confirmed that there will be a further year-long grace period for large scale solar PV projects which fail […]

By Adam Brown

One of the problems faced by the UK in achieving security of electricity supply at an affordable cost is its […]

By Adam Brown

The European Commission’s state aid decision clearing the UK’s “enduring regime” of renewables contracts for difference (dated 23 July, published […]

By Adam Brown

Following a consultation that ran from 13 May to 7 July 2014, the UK Government has confirmed its intention that, […]

By Adam Brown

It is normal for Member States to make support for renewable generation available only to generators based in their own […]

By Adam Brown

In July and November last year, DECC consulted on the transition period between the introduction of the Contracts for Difference […]

By Adam Brown

This post is the third in a series on the European Commission’s initial assessment of the package of measures by […]

By Adam Brown

This is the second in a series of posts on the European Commission’s initial assessment of the package of measures […]

By Adam Brown

On 18 December 2013, the European Commission announced that it was opening an in-depth state aid investigation into the Government’s […]

By Adam Brown