How to make money from the lights going out
Labour's Alan Whitehead explains why an amendment to the Energy Bill may be required to make it impossible for energy companies to "game" the proposed capacity mechanism
What might you do as an energy company faced with a promise from the government that, if capacity availability for power generation looked a little tight over the next few years, you might get paid for...
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