Johnny Gowdy examines plans to extend the Electricity Generator Levy and introduce a new Wholesale Contract for Difference for legacy generation assets, asking whether these measures are likely to reduce bills or provide meaningful protection for consumers in the near term.
Regen has partnered with DESNZ, Great British Energy and the Local Net Zero Hubs to create training and guides to support confident, consistent and timely decisions on applications for low-carbon energy generation, storage and network infrastructure.
In this first paper in a new insight series, we unpack what transmission constraints are, why they've increased and what's really driving the costs.
With more than half of GB’s current onshore wind fleet expected to face end-of-life decisions by 2035, repowering is a critical but overlooked consideration that will shape the UK’s future energy security. This paper highlights the barriers holding back onshore wind repowering and sets out urgent actions to unlock the potential of the existing fleet.
As part of the 2025 DFES update, we conducted an analysis of the growth and impact of data centres in National Grid Electricity Distribution’s licence areas. This paper summarises the potential future uptake of data centres, the geographical factors driving AI growth in particular areas, and commentary on the wider network and societal impacts of data centre development in the UK.
Our latest paper considers recent biomethane supply projections and assesses the likely feasibility of this ‘green gas’ replacing fossil fuels for consumer use.
With planning a critical enabler of net zero, our latest briefing explores the scale of the challenge and some of the practical solutions already being explored by local planning authorities.
With zonal pricing now ruled out, Johnny Gowdy considers the challenges and opportunities still facing the government to deliver investment and meaningful benefits for consumers before the next election.
Something Wonderful in My Back Yard is a sparkling new crowd-funded musical! This songbook contains the first songs from the musical with parts for piano or guitar accompaniment. We've also included knitting patterns for Carbon Dioxide Particles, approaches to guerrilla gardening and a recipe for gullible stew.
Chloe Uden
ReLight My Fire was a four-day festival of performance, workshops, creative installations and public conversation exploring energy—its past, present, and possible futures.
When theatre company Burn the Curtain joined Regen’s Relight My Fire Festival in 2015, their challenge was to help audiences understand where our energy really comes from — and how our choices affect the communities we live in. The result was The Generation Game: a playful, participatory artwork that invited people to build, power, and manage a miniature town of their own.
Looking out to 2030, this paper sets out the longer term opportunities and ambition for the development of marine energy in South West England.
Johnny Gowdy
Energy and the Arts marked the beginning of Regen’s Art and Energy programme. From this modest printed booklet has grown a decade of collaborations: from poetry and portraiture to interactive solar artworks and international research.
The Bristol City Region is home to world-leading marine energy technology developers, excellent universities and supply chain companies at the forefront of an emerging offshore renewable energy sector.
Matt Harvey is Regen's poet in residence. As part of Matt's residence at Regen, he has written The Element in the Room - a book of poems inspired by energy, renewable energy in particular and a book of pictures inspired by poems about renewable energy.
The recently published Wave and Tidal Key Resource Area review (The Crown Estate) has again highlighted that the energy resource in the Bristol Channel is of national strategic significance to meet the future demand for low-carbon energy, and is the single largest resource area for tidal energy in the UK. The Bristol Channel is, however, a complex hydrodynamic system which supports a wide range of marine habitats, marine communities and economic interests, as well as providing a major sea transport route into the UK heartland.
The South West Marine Energy Park (MEP) was launched on 23 January 2012, marking an exciting phase in marine energy industry development in the south west of England. The South West MEP provides a focus for industry and investment to generate jobs and business opportunities for the regional economy. The designation of the South West MEP has helped to cement the UK's position as the centre of the emerging global industry.
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