It's a good week for energy geeks! I've been working through the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero REMA second stage consultation paper and options analysis with colleagues in the Foot Anstey LLP Clean Energy team, and we share our initial thoughts on some of the key provisions. We're still going through the fine details and analysis, but overall it seems to be a pretty sensible set of potential reforms being taken forward (Regen neatly referring to this as "Progressive Market Reform"). There is still a lot of complexity to work through within REMA and then in implementing the reforms themselves - not to mention resulting changes that would be required to the connections process and planning system if certain measures were to be adopted (looking at you, Zonal Pricing!), but overall I'm feeling positive and looking forward to spending more time with these documents in coming days. #REMA #energy #energytransition
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