As oil and gas costs begin to climb once more, the government faces a familiar challenge – how to protect those most at risk while building an energy system that reduces exposure to future shocks. Grace Millman argues that the UK must move beyond blunt, crisis-era interventions and build a fairer energy system that properly supports households most exposed to energy price shocks.
Working with London Councils and Repowering London, Regen has created guidance to help time-constrained local authority officers enable community energy in their borough to flourish.
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.
Ray Arrell reflects on the process pioneered by Regen back in 2015 – and how it has developed into a detailed, bottom-up approach to regional network planning.
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.
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.
Johnny Gowdy
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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