In February 2024, HM Treasury asked the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to undertake a study on the challenges to making the electricity distribution networks in Great Britain fit for net zero.
This report, funded by the European Climate Foundation, examines five issues that project developers and planners have told us are the key challenges for the planning system for renewables and storage in England.
Regen has responded to the government’s Planning Reform Working Paper on Planning Committees, highlighting key recommendations to enhance the process for renewable energy and storage developments.
Using ‘open-source’ analysis, Regen has explored how different regulatory and market reforms affect the investability of an example Scottish onshore wind farm.
Our letter to the Secretary of State highlights our concerns that converting the GB electricity market into one based on zonal pricing will undermine the clean power mission.
Regen's response to the government working paper supports planning reforms that accelerate the energy transition by creating a simpler, faster planning process aligned with nature recovery goals.
Regen's planning lead, Rebecca Windemer, sets out initial thoughts on the revised National Planning Policy Framework.
Regen's consultation response focuses on how connections reform will impact achieving the CP30 mission and support the GB market to attract the scale and pace of investment in generation and storage projects required.
Fraser Stewart explains why shared ownership can support a more just energy transition.
Regen has sent a letter to the Secretary of State to ask about the 'needed' status of local and community energy in the government's soon-to-be-published Clean Power Plan.
The latest paper from the Net Zero Living programme, sets out a vision for a thriving local energy future, complete with recommendations for unlocking this going forward.
Developed with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Renewable & Sustainable Energy, this comprehensive guide aims to help MPs and others address common myths about onshore renewables.
Since 2017, Regen has supported the Welsh Government in setting out how energy is used in Wales, and how it has changed over time.
This analysis sets out how energy is generated in Wales, and how it has changed over time, to evidence the economic, community and environmental benefits from the development of Welsh energy projects.
Johnny Gowdy sets out four reasons why the government should call time on the zonal pricing debate and quickly move forward with ambitious but progressive market reform that can be delivered within the existing decentralised national market arrangements.
Regen has joined a coalition of leading organisations to urge the Secretary of State to ensure that local and community energy is designated as 'needed' in the Clean Power 2030 Plan and any subsequent grid connections reform.
Tamsyn Lonsdale-Smith discusses the historic timescale analysis we carried out as part of this work, comparing results from different technologies using publicly available planning data.
NESO published the much trailed Clean Power 2030 advice to government on 5 November, providing a plan setting out how much of the technologies we need, where we need them – and what the key barriers are.
The ENA's Strategic Connections Group hosted a workshop this week on raising entry requirements for projects applying for grid connections at distribution level, and planned changes to G99 connection procedures.
Here, Alex Temple pulls out some of the relevant points from Labour's first Budget in 14 years.
This paper provides a comprehensive framework for how shared ownership can support a just energy transition, offering detailed actions for the UK government and GB Energy to harness its potential for people, planet and the UK's net zero mission.
Regen director Johnny Gowdy gives his view on where REMA may have got to and what to expect next.
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