Featured in Meet your makers – 03-2015

Solars battle to plug in

UK electricity market reform: Billed as an effective means of decarbonizing the UKs economy, the EMR has faced accusations of favoritism and creating an uneven playing field for renewables. Solar PV in particular has suffered, but as the technology evolves and the market grows independently, change may soon come from the bottom up.

By

Ilias Tsagas

06 Mar 2015

Oh sweet irony of life. A conservative-led U.K. government last year legislated the Electricity Market Reform (EMR), reversing almost three decades of a liberalized quasi-competitive energy market that the same party initiated in the ‘80s. The post-EMR market is one driven entirely by the state. To be fair, the EMR framework was originally introduced in …

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