Consultation Submissions

Ofgem is consulting on its methodology for the next network price control RIIO3. We welcome the focus on the investment needed to meet Net Zero but urge Ofgem to emphasise the companies' own environmental impacts in areas like SF6 emissions, energy losses and methane leakage. We also highlight the need for wider engagement on the difficult inter-generational questions around the future of the gas networks.

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Economic regulation is taking place in a changing enviroment. The need for utilities to deliver reliance against weather and other shocks, in the face of climate change both have an impact. In this consultation response, we ask how regulators can move to a far wider question about the role of data and we urge for greater engagement with current and future consumers.

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In our consultation submission, we argue that wholescale changes to the legislation that defines regulator's objectives is not needed. But there is an urgent need for re-examination of regulatory frameworks and capabilities in the face of machine learning/AI as well as regarding adaptation to climate change. Moreover, we think the right balance is not being struck between regulators' responsibilities and government's

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Heat networks are expected to play a crucial part in the decarbonisation of heating. This requires heat networks to be accepted by consumers, raising greater awareness, consistent high standards of provision and reasonable pricing. We also need additional protection for those that need it. Read why we think the proposed approach will fall short and cannot deliver alone.

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We welcome Ofgem's proposal to allow additional funding to National Gas Transmission to cut methane leakage from its network; this is an important way to tackle climate change as reflected in the Methane Pledge that the UK government signed at COP26. We urge Ofgem to build on this and set more ambitious methane reduction targets as it considers the next price control, RIIO-3.

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