May 25, 2021, by Adnan Durakovic
Britain’s energy regulators are putting billions of pounds of green infrastructure investment at risk by overseeing an energy market which favours EU energy imports at the expense of home-grown schemes, new research has shown.
Electricity generators in the UK pay transmission charges for the cost of building and maintaining the network, set by the regulator Ofgem and ultimately paid by consumers as part of their bills.
New analysis by RIDG (Renewable Infrastructure Development Group), a member company of RenewableUK, highlights the stark anomalies in how electricity generators access the GB market, with operators in Germany, France, and the Netherlands able to export energy significantly cheaper than projects in the UK, because they pay very low transmission charges, or none at all, RenewableUK said.
Ex-Inch Cape project director Stephen Kerr has joined the ScotWind bid team of the Offshore Wind Power joint venture.
Kerr will lead the delivery of any project that the Green Investment Group and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group partnership secures in the leasing round up to a final investment decision.
He was previously project director for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm situated around 15km off the Angus coast, achieving initial project consents for the wind farm and transmission assets.
Kerr, who has over 30 years’ experience, also worked in the development team for the recently completed Beatrice project in the Moray Firth.