In February 2024, HM Treasury asked the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to undertake a study on the challenges to making the electricity distribution networks in Great Britain fit for net zero.
This report, funded by the European Climate Foundation, examines five issues that project developers and planners have told us are the key challenges for the planning system for renewables and storage in England.
Regen has written the following response to the open consultation on reforms to national planning policy relating to onshore wind, led by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
On 20 February 2023, Regen's director Johnny Gowdy drafted an open letter to ministers and officials from the Treasury and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, raising concerns about UK investment attractiveness in light of the Electricity Generator Levy.
As the government consults on changes to future rounds of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, Regen's Estelle Limon and Johnny Gowdy explore whether factors beyond price should be taken into account when awarding CfD contracts to renewable developers.
Regen has worked with Wiltshire Council to set out how the area can deliver on its ambition of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.
On Tuesday 24 January 2023, Regen's chief executive Merlin Hyman OBE gave evidence to the BEIS Select Committee on the subject of power decarbonisation and flexibility.
Regen's Energy Justice and Just Transition Lead Fraser Stewart discusses the vital importance of a 'just transition' to net zero.
Regen's chief executive, Merlin Hyman, responds to the publication of Chris Skidmore's independent Net Zero Review.
In Regen's first insight paper of 2023, director Johnny Gowdy analyses the emerging details of the government's new Electricity Generator Levy (EGL).
Our new and improved final report with National Grid ESO analyses how the future net zero energy system will operate in challenging conditions on a difficult summer day and a difficult winter day in 2035.
In this brand new insight paper, Regen identifies seven potential solutions to reduce the cost of balancing and managing constraints now.
Regen has produced a guide for local authorities to bring together the latest thinking on how local authorities can support new renewable development in their areas.
The vision of the ReWiRE network is to make gender diversity a priority at all levels of the clean energy sector, making companies more resilient and able to innovate. The ReWiRE mentoring programme supports women in the clean energy industry to progress their careers.
Our latest paper with Kensa heat pumps shows how shared ground arrays could unlock a larger market for ground source heat pumps, whilst reducing peak winter electricity demand.
Our policy and advocacy manager, Madeleine Greenhalgh, explores how carbon is measured and valued in flexibility markets.
Our ambitious paper, Energy Networks for the Future, highlights the need for a new partnership between the public and private sector to deliver the energy infrastructure needed to achieve net zero decarbonisation.
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