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@transparent the state has no money to cover the upfront cost of installing batteries. There is little chance of central and local government taking o...
I am unsure that tweaking tarrif is going to help enough of those households on low income in my experience. I struggle to see how block tarrif etc ar...
I think the cap and floor relates to the operating of the link not a cap and floor of the unit price of electricity through the link
"With the transmission pipeline currently oversubscribed at more than 560GW" @transparent what does that include? I seem to remember reading less th...
@transparent I don't personally think we can really help sufficient vulnerable people unless we have a social tarrif and do our best to target it appr...
Already in train for Scotland and the North and investment has already been confirmed for Liverpool. The cap and floor mechanism coming in for ba...
There is already a push from Data Centre suppliers for the right incentives to site Data Centres in areas with excess electricity and for them to bene...
Are you able to quantify in £ the cost on a typical domestic energy bill in the South West for the regional distribution grid upgrades? Roughly how mu...
@editor A breakdown of the levy split across gas and electricity is in the table below. I think it makes sense for some of the levy to stay on ele...
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