Utility Week’s Post

Top stories today (£) 💧 Anglian Water sceptical about benefits of rising block tariffs https://buff.ly/3VpDDqb Introducing rising block tariffs risks undermining efforts to conserve resources in water-stressed parts of the country, senior figures at Anglian Water Services have suggested. Instead of ruling out block tariffs, the company is adopting a “wait and see” attitude to see if they work in other regions. Pete Holland, director of customer and wholesale services at Anglian, told Utility Week that offering rising block tariffs would contradict with 20-years' worth of messaging about reducing consumption. ⚡ NESO requests first competitive tender for onshore transmission project https://buff.ly/3BfFIOF The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has written to Ofgem to request a competitive tender for the design, construction and operation of part of a new onshore transmission circuit between Scotland and England. It is the first time NESO has asked for a project to be tendered under the new early competition framework for onshore transmission being introduced by the regulator. 👨⚖️ Legal challenges will see Great Grid Upgrade projects face ‘over a year’ of delays https://buff.ly/49ndP43 A mass of legal challenges to the Great Grid Upgrade’s controversial plans for new pylons means that the programme faces delays of “far longer” than a year, a senior Tory MP has warned. Harwich MP Sir Bernard Jenkin, who chairs the cross-party group of East Anglian MPs campaigning against the proposed Norwich to Tilbury transmission upgrade, has urged a rethink of the reliance on pylons in National Grid’s wider £54 billion programme.

ICYMI: The CRE proposes extending the regulated electricity tariffs (TRVE) to protect households against price volatility and provide essential stability in an evolving market. L’article France: The CRE Recommends Five Years of Regulated Electricity Tariffs est apparu en premier sur energynews.

The CRE proposes extending the regulated electricity tariffs (TRVE) to protect households against price volatility and provide essential stability in an evolving market. L’article France: The CRE Recommends Five Years of Regulated Electricity Tariffs est apparu en premier sur energynews.

ACER recommends aligning Dutch gas transmission tariffs with the network code's information requirements https://lnkd.in/dVKB8Drx ACER releases its report on the Dutch gas transmission tariffs, directed at Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM), the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) of the Netherlands. The report provides guidance on addressing the requirements of the Network Code on Harmonised Transmission Tariff structures (NC TAR) when defining the gas transmission reference price methodology (RPM) for the period 2025-2029.

Uganda’s power regulator, the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA), has announced a 5.2% reduction in electricity end-user tariffs for the first quarter of 2025. #Kikubolaneupdates

2025 draft TNUoS tariffs predict 6% increase against July forecasts, and a significant rise against current tariffs  ❗ National Energy System Operator (NESO) published its draft Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) tariffs to apply for 2025/26 last week. NESO reports an average 6% overall increase in Transmission Demand Residual tariffs from the July forecast due to an increase in allowed revenue. Read Daniel Starman's latest Intelligence article to understand more about the forecasts and how they might impact your organisation. Link in comments 👇 #TNUoS #NESO #TNUoStariffs

Ofgem consults on ending ban on acquisition-only tariffs. Ofgem is consulting on ending the ban on acquisition-only tariffs, with a proposed removal date of 1st October. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero #energycrisis #energytariffs #energycosts #energyprices #energydemand #energysupply #energysupplier #energyproduction

Abundance of data and interesting graphs in this article, along with USA manufacturing boom due to 2022 IRA investment. But knowing how the market reacted to the 2018 tariffs and solar equipment being imported, we can draw some predictions about how 2025 tariffs could play out.  In the short term – the industry may see a dip in total jobs and pricing of systems may increase too. Important to note that the previous tariffs were specifically on solar modules and cells. Proposed tariffs would affect All imports so smaller components previously not taxed could now see increased costs too.  In the long term – Solar (and now Battery-Storage) has shown itself to be a resilient industry that can face many challenges and still makes sense for consumers. Long term, the solar industry is projected to continue breaking records for installation capacity and job growth. Price reductions may flatten out, but continued development of the US-based solar and battery-storage markets will provide additional duty-free capacity and may help to bring down costs and add to domestic job growth. #solar #battery #jobs #economy #environment #cleanair #cleanwater #naturaldisastermanagement #climatechange

*Austrian entry tariffs from Germany could triple, and Italian tariffs quadruple under suggested changes made by regulator E-Control to the reference price methodology for 2025-28* Read the full story free here: https://lnkd.in/eRx-aUcg A reorganisation of flow patterns since the start of the war in Ukraine has led to a "completely changed situation", the regulator said — transit flows have decreased significantly and Austria imports much more gas from Germany and Italy. E-Control plans to adapt its tariff calculation methodology to reflect these changes for the 2025-28 regulatory period, and is consulting on its proposal until 21 Feb. The regulator wants to switch the reference price methodology to a capacity-weighted distance model because it is the "default" option in the EU law and "offers robust, cost-reflective tariffs in an environment of uncertain future gas flows". Final tariffs will be published at the beginning of June, ahead of the yearly capacity auctions. E-Control will begin calculating tariffs on a yearly basis, allowing it to "reflect changes in gas flow patterns and demand for transmission capacity more accurately". E-Control plans to apply a 100pc discount for entry points from storage and no discount for exit points to storage. And it wants to reintroduce a commodity charge to cover the cost of transmission services — of roughly €0.12/MWh for entry flows and €0.13/MWh for exit flows. No commodity charge will be levied this year, while the charge had been much higher for June 2022-December 2023. E-Control's planned entry tariff — using the capacity-weighted model and factoring in its predictions for contracted capacity in 2025 — would triple the entry tariff from Germany at Oberkappel to €2.97/kWh/h/yr. And the entry tariff for Arnoldstein on the Italian border would be four times higher at €4.18/kWh/h/yr (see 2025 vs 2024 table). At the same time, entry capacity at Baumgarten would increase by only 31pc to €1.11/kWh/h/yr. All interruptible entry tariffs will rise significantly. Exit tariffs to the Storage Penta West point — where gas exits the grid for injection into the Haidach and 7Fields facilities — will climb under E-Control's proposal, as will exit tariffs to the storage facility just on the other side of the Slovak border. In the following years, E-Control preliminarily expects entry tariffs to slip at Baumgarten and rise at Oberkappel and Uberackern. And it projects a rise in exit tariffs to Hungary by 55pc by 2028 from 2025 (see 2025-28 table). The regulator wants a multiplier of 1 for annual transport capacity products, 1.5 for quarterly and monthly capacity, and 3 for daily and within-day products. This structure aims to promote efficient use of the system "by keeping tariffs for new long-term bookings competitive". Additional long-term bookings may in turn contribute to a reduction in future multipliers, E-Control said #gas #supply #tariff