I’m reading through the new launch of the ‘Great British Energy company and I am excited that it’s recognising a real need in our industry -… its sounds great with it’s stated mission: “to drive clean energy deployment to create jobs, boost energy independence, and ensure U K taxpayers, billpayers and communities reap the benefits of clean, secure, homegrown energy.” This is something we’d all welcome.
GBE is a public body hopefully “working in lockstep with industry, we can help drive the innovation and investment required to transform our power system and decarbonise the grid by 2030”
I know from experience of working with our renewable energy developers in the UK over the last 10 years that they always find a way to keep going, keep investing, developing, consenting and building. When Ofgem said they didn’t know how to deal with energy storage 2015 developers carried on and said we’ll cross that bridge when we get there and led the way- I know and trust our industry, and that hydrogen, grid stability technology and asset management platforms will all strengthen our sector, but I’ve not yet seen it truly led by govt- except perhaps for CFD’s in 2014.
What I can’t yet see are any plans for the ‘grid lock’ currently stymieing progress at the moment, but I have hope and optimism for the future. Can Great British Energy get things moving at pace and find a way to remove this most stubborn of barriers. Time will tell.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introducing-great-british-energy
