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Responding to the publication today [25 October, 2017] of the independent Cost of Energy Review by Professor Dieter Helm, CBE

“The Helm Review contains both good and bad recommendations which reflect Professor Helm’s longstanding beliefs about the UK electricity system.<\/p>\n

“It is right to highlight the need for a strong and uniform carbon price across the UK economy to confront fossil fuels with their real costs and to help correct the distortions in the electricity market.<\/p>\n

“However, the Review also, predictably, calls for renewable electricity generators to be responsible for managing the costs of intermittent output. This would require, for instance, the owners of offshore wind farms to enter into arrangements to provide power to the network from alternative sources when wind speeds are too low to do so. This would be likely to create unnecessary additional costs, however, as balancing costs arise at a system level rather than for individual wind farms.<\/p>\n

“Nonetheless, renewables with variable electricity generation output, such as wind and solar, do create further system costs. At present these costs are socialised and not directly borne by renewables generators. In future, it is possible that they could be reflected in the network charges faced by variable renewable generators. This would improve cost-effectiveness much more efficiently than requiring individual wind or solar farms to balance their output.”<\/p>\n

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For more information about this media release please contact Bob Ward on +44 (0) 7811 320346 or<\/strong>r.e.ward@lse.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n