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Government announces plans to regulate heat networks, reveals the ADE
INDUSTRY UNITES
FOR LARGEST EVER POLL ON SKILLS SHORTAGES, REPORTS ACE
invited to take part in the largest ever research project on skills shortages As the UK prepares for the departure
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protection. The announcement is included in Heat Networks: Ensuring Sustained Investment and Protecting Consumers which was released this month. The plan to introduce regulation follows and aligns with recommendations made
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by both the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in its Heat Network Market Study, and by industry through the Association for Decentralised Energy’s (ADE’s) Heat Network Industry Task Force. The ADE supported the CMA with its market study and shared its heat network
customer protection policy recommendations as part of its work. This included a recommendation for a regulatory framework that reduces investment risk for heat network developers by addressing the crucial issue of demand risk, and also ensures excellent customer outcomes in price, contract length and structure, and competition. This regulation will help to improve consumer confidence by guaranteeing
customer protection and will help to create a self-sustaining heat market which works for everyone involved. The ADE will continue to work with Government to support the creation of a user-led, decentralised energy system. ADE Director Dr Tim Rotheray said: “Today’s announcement is a win for
customers and a win for industry which, through the ADE, has been advocating for regulation for the past year. Government has recognised that creating a market that protects customers and reduces investment risk are two sides of the same coin and that a well-considered regulatory framework can support the creation of such a market. “In proposing a framework that tackles investment risk and assures customers of
the level of service they will receive, Government is putting the appropriate steps in create a self-sustaining, cost-effective market that will benefit all. “As well as welcoming the work of industry to-date in driving up standards, the
report highlights that developing an effective heat networks market framework that works for investors and consumers now and in the future will require close working with a range of parties. As part of this, Government will continue to engage with a range of stakeholders, including the CMA and the heat network industry. It aims to consult on policy options for the framework in Summer 2019.” Dr Rotheray concludes: “Government has rightly expressed its desire to consult
on the framework and look at learnings from other countries where the heat network sector is more established when developing this framework. “The heat network market is very different to the electricity and gas markets and
we hope that Government continues to bear this in mind as it develops the regulatory-framework over the coming year.”
he UK Government has announced it will implement a heat network regulatory framework to support market growth and ensure customer
from the EU next year, construction’s leading trade and professional bodies have joined forces to build a picture of those occupations that are in greatest demand. The survey – which will go out to
more than 20,000 companies nationwide - will ask respondents to indicate which roles they are finding it difficult to recruit now, and which they expect to be challenging post-Brexit.
The survey is supported by: • Association for Consultancy &
Engineering (ACE) • Build UK • Chartered Institute of Building • Civil Engineering Contractors
Association • Construction Plant-hire Association • Construction Products Association • Federation of Master Builders • Highways Term Maintenance
Association • National Federation of Builders
In order to ensure that the survey has
as wide reach as possible, companies that are not members are also invited to take part in the survey, which can be found here. The evidence uncovered from this
survey will be used to identify where industry should be focusing its efforts to recruit new workers. It will also be used to engage with the
Government and Migration Advisory Committee to support decision-making on appropriate migration for workers from the EU and rest of the world. Hannah Vickers, chief executive of
the Association for Consultancy & Engineering commented: “With all the uncertainty around
Brexit and its impact on skills, we need to make sure that our industry has a sound evidence base from which to argue, which is why I will be asking all our members to participate in the survey. “We will need to come together in
one voice and collectively make the case for construction to Government, ensuring that any post-Brexit agreement secures the skills our sector needs now and into the future.”
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018 UK POwER NEwS
ompanies from across the UK construction sector are being
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enquiries@idgte.org 2019 IDGTE Events, Seminars & Conferences
* Thursday 2 May, 2019 Technology Seminar and 72nd Annual Luncheon
Tower Bridge Hotel, London. * May 2019
This event will be held at the Grange
Technical Visit to Guascor Dresser Siemens, Spain
Highlight of the visit is anticipated to be the new 2MW gas engine with best-in- class efficiency.
* Wednesday, 26 June, 2019 Midsummer Mingle
Anson Engine Museum, Poynton, Cheshire
Celebrate Midsummer and mingle with old engineering colleagues. * June 2019 Technical visit to Spectro | Jet-Care, Odiham, Hampshire
* Date TBC - 2019 Operational Report Meeting to discuss the results of the previous year's Operational Report.
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