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UKERC Responds to DESNZ and Ofgem Consultations on Reformed National Pricing
This week, UKERC Researchers have responded to a consultation and call for input on reformed national pricing. The two submissions, for DESNZ’s Reformed National Pricing Delivery Plan consultation, and for Ofgem’s Call for Input on Locational Charges, help to inform the ongoing debate on how best to deliver a Reformed National Pricing (RNP) electricity market arrangement that delivers continued decarbonisation while minimising costs to the consumer.
Reformed National Pricing: Insights on UK Electricity Market Reform
This project explores how industry, policymakers and researchers understand the Government’s proposed Reformed National Pricing model following the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements decision. This project explores how industry, policymakers and researchers understand the Government’s proposed Reformed National Pricing model following the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements decision.
The Price of Power: Wholesale Market Price Formation, Policy Costs and Domestic Electricity Bills in Britain
Three years after the energy crisis, residential electricity prices in the UK 2025 are still historically high, and the UK is amongst the highest priced countries for electricity. This paper finds that bills have risen by £150 in real terms since 2021, and that £112 of this increase is due to higher wholesale market prices driven largely by gas. Britain’s electricity system is also going through a profound change.
Zonal Pricing Volume Risk and the 2030 Clean Power Target: Working Paper
This Working Paper provides an update to the UKERC Discussion Paper published in March 2025 on the interactions between the possible introduction of zonal pricing and transmission build rates in the GB electricity market. This paper contains full methodological details to complement the analysis published in March. UKERC is independent of government and industry and has no vested interest in, or organisational position on, zonal pricing.
Change is coming
Two Big Trends In my last post I wrote about why we founded Arondite. In this post, I describe two of the most important technological trends we're seeing as well as the new opportunities and challenges they present. These are: 1. The Cambrian Explosion in robotic and autonomous systems. 2. The accelerating importance of AI in defining those systems. The number of robotic and autonomous systems is growing fast, bringing a factorial increase in the complexity of data and mission management.
Accelerating Offshore Wind Deployment through Reform of Contracts for Difference
Offshore wind plays a major role in the future of the UK’s power system. This report considers changes to policy design which could accelerate the deployment of projects to meet 2030 decarbonisation goals and reduce cost to consumers by providing greater certainty to developers and the supply chain.
Zonal Pricing, Volume Risk and the 2030 Clean Power Target
Modelling Efficiency Renewables New UKERC modelling is assessing the interactions between transmission build-rates and the possible introduction of zonal pricing in the British electricity market. It cautions that investors currently face high uncertainty, and considerable volume of sales risks, with a material impact on renewable energy auctions that are essential for meeting clean power 2030 targets.
Why we founded Arondite
We founded Arondite because we are optimists. The collective values of the democratic world are under threat. Great power competition is back and here to stay. Yet we believe our values are worth protecting and that we can rise again to meet those challenges, no matter how grave they may turn out to be. And we also know that solving these problems is on us — to build new tools, to make new discoveries and find new answers.
Transition Risk: Investment signals in a decarbonising electricity system
This paper explores how uncertainty around the structure of a future decarbonised energy system introduces risk, which can significantly increase the cost of reaching net zero. It specifically looks at the financial case for offshore wind. Rapid deployment of renewable energy is at the forefront of the UK government’s plans to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, as a precursor to meeting broader net zero aspirations by mid-century.
Pot-Zero 2025 Update: Reducing the Cost of Renewable Support to Consumers
Pot Zero The 2022 study was carried out in the context of very high energy prices following the energy crisis at that time. Whilst prices have subsided since their peak, they remain elevated compared to the previous decade. Based on recent market data and scenarios, this report finds that Pot-Zero could still deliver material consumer savings in the range of £2-8 billion per year during the late 2020s while maintaining investment confidence and aligning with the UK’s decarbonisation objectives.
Can renewables and nuclear help keep bills down this winter?
This discussion paper explores the potential of using the low cost of renewables and nuclear to help keep energy prices down. Crucially it uses existing support schemes and does not require any change to market rules. Wholesale electricity prices are currently dominated by the very high price of gas. The British Energy Security Strategy proposes a large expansion in wind, solar and nuclear power, all of which can generate electricity more cheaply than gas, at current prices.
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