In April 2022, the attention in the market turned to REMA, a welcome opening of a necessary conversation on market reform. The risks here have… Read More »Reform in haste, repent at leisure: squaring electricity market reform with investor confidence
There’s a lot of debate on what might be done outside the energy market to relieve consumer bills. We don’t have much to add there, but we have been thinking and chatting around the place about whether temporary fixes could be made to the wholesale market design that would result in lower prices for consumers (and thus less pressure for external political intervention)
With power prices expected to remain high for the foreseeable future and increasing challenges to our energy supply, the energy trilemma – the need to deliver net zero while preserving our security of supply in a way affordable to consumers – is taking centre stage once again.