London Climate Change Agency

Regulatory Barriers to Decentralised Energy

EXISTING EXEMPT LICENCING REGIME

The Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 2001 governs the exempt licencing regime, which enables exempt generators, distributors and suppliers to supply electricity that they generate and distribute themselves directly to customers rather than to a licenced supplier (the grid). The existing exempt licencing regime is detailed in the following.

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Exempt Licencing Regime

Response of the Greater London Authority, the London Development Agency and the London Climate Change Agency to Initial Proposals for More Flexible Market and Licensing Arrangements for Distributed Energy.

 

DTI/OFGEM REVIEW DISTRIBUTED ENERGY

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) published the call for evidence in November 2006 with the deadline for responses to the call for evidence required by 2 January 2007. The call for evidence is detailed in http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file35026.pdf

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THE LONDON CLIMATE CHANGE AGENCY RESPONSE TO THE CALL FOR EVIDENCE  to the review of barriers and incentives to distributed electricity generation, including combined heat and power.

REVIEW OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR DISTRIBUTED (DECENTRALISED) ENERGY

Distributed Energy Working Group

The Chief Executive Officer and Senior Policy Advisor Climate Change of the London Climate Change Agency sit on Ofgem Distributed Energy Working Group. As part of the activities of this Group members were invited to submit evidence on the regulatory barriers to distributed energy. The London Climate Change Agency submitted its evidence on the regulatory barriers to distributed energy on 10 September 2007 as detailed below.

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Review of  arrangements for Distributed (decentralised) energy.  LONDON CLIMATE CHANGE AGENCY SUBMISSION TO THE DBERR/OFGEM