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UK Electricity Market Reform and the Energy Transition: Emerging Lessons

Michael Grubb and David Newbery
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Michael J. Grubb and David M Newbery

The Energy Journal, 2018, vol. Volume 39, issue Number 6

Abstract: The 2013 Electricity Market Reform (EMR) was a response to the twin problems of securing efficient finance for a new generation of low carbon investments, and delivering reliability along with a growing share of renewables in its energy-only market. Four EMR instruments combined to revolutionize the sector; stimulating unprecedented technological and structural change. Competitive auctions for both firm capacity and renewable energy have seen prices far lower than predicted and the entry of unexpected new technologies. A carbon price floor displaced coal, whose share fell from 46% in 1995 to 7% in 2017, halving CO2. Renewables grew from under 4% in 2008 to 22% by 2017, projected at 30+% by 2020 despite a political ban on onshore wind. Neither the technological nor regulatory transitions are complete, and the results to date highlight other challenges, notably to transmission pricing and locational signals. EMR is a step forwards, not backwards; but it is not the end of the story.

JEL-codes: F0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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