ofgem role in electricity supply, investigating electricity supply in uk, responsibility for electricity resilience
Lords investigate regulator's role in ensuring electricity resilience
13 January 2015
The Lords Science and Technology Committee, investigating electricity supply in the UK, will hear firstly from a panel of energy experts and secondly from the regulator, Ofgem, on Tuesday 13 January.
- Parliament TV: The resilience of electricity infrastructure
- Inquiry: The resilience of electricity infrastructure
- Science and Technology Committee (Lords)
Background
The Committee’s evidence session will turn the spotlight on areas such as the effectiveness of government policies, where responsibility for electricity resilience lies, and the cost of decarbonisation of electricity generation.
Witnesses
Tuesday 13 January, Committee Room 4A, Palace of Westminster
At 10.40am:
- Dr John Constable, Director, Renewable Energy Foundation;
- Rupert Darwall, author of the REFORM publication, How to run a country: energy policy and the return of the state; and
- Dr Robert Gross, Reader in Energy Policy and Technology, Imperial College London
At 11.40am:
- Rachel Fletcher, Senior Partner for Markets, Ofgem; and
- Maxine Frerk, Senior Partner for Smarter Grids & Governance: Distribution, Ofgem
Questions
Questions that the Committee will put to the witnesses include:
- How effective are the government’s policies at ensuring resilient electricity supply?
- What about steps being taken by Ofgem and National Grid in this area?
- How much is decarbonisation of electricity generation going to cost?
- What lessons have been learned from last Christmas’s outages?
- Is there a need for a so-called Systems Architect to help coordinate transition to a low carbon electricity system?