Last Friday's news across the U.K. energy Twittersphere revolved around French utility EDF scheduling a meeting of its board of directors for 28 July. The meeting agenda "includes the final investment decision for the construction of two EPR reactors at Hinkley Point C (HPC) in the south-west of England," said EDF's press release. The 3.2 GW Hinkley Point C nuclear plant is the latest U.K. government-delivered policy blow in favor of a centralized energy system. But the most apparent policy effort to preserve the centralized character of the U.K.'s energy system is the Electricity Market Reform (EMR), which was ratified in 2014. New CfD auctions for solar?The Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum organized a conference recently titled "Delivering Electricity Market Reform and priorities for new Contracts for Difference." The Contracts for Difference (CfDs) are the EMR's mechanism to subsidize renewable energy. Fossil fuels-based generation is supported via the Capacity Market scheme and, rather ironically, the U.K. - the world's former liberalization poster child - subsidizes ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...
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