Electricity Market Reform

Alan Whitehead MP offers some sage advice for any green business exec who has ever been harangued about the cost of subsidising clean energy

Leaked draft document shows European Commission will no longer force 'deployed' renewables to compete in tech-neutral auctions

Industry insiders divided over potential impact of competition review on clean energy investment

Details on incentive system to keep power plants as back-up generators published by Department of Energy and Climate Change

Nina Skorupska warns that messing with the carbon price floor risks bringing the entire fragile edifice of government clean energy policy tumbling down

Policy Exchange's Guy Newey assesses the arguments behind the UK's increasingly interventionist energy policy - and finds them wanting

RenewableUK's Maf Smith worries government is risking mis-steps as it completes the last few pieces of the Electricity Market Reform jigsaw

Government proposes 'off-taker of last resort' mechanism offering backstop purchase agreements to smaller generators

About 8,000 employees reportedly told to stay away from the site, although operator says radiation levels are not dangerous

Company pulls plug on two proposed wind farms, citing uncertainty created by proposed auctioning mechanism