A publication by Ignition Partners
News and analysis on the big ticket moves delivering the energy transition. A unique take on the key investment, technology developments, and players enabling net zero.
Regulatory shifts, settlement reform, and the commercial restructuring of retail energy markets. Keeping an eye on volatility.
Technology as the new infrastructure. How it's being used, and examining the gap between vendor claims and operational reality.
Deals, restructuring and the strategic moves that reshape the sector. What the press release does not say, and why it matters commercially.
Conversations and thought leadership from the sector's senior practitioners, asking the important questions.
The commercial structure of net zero. Who pays, who profits, and how the money actually moves through the system.
The latest news and analysis, telling the story of the energy transition, as it happens.
The Transition Economy · Analysis
The National Audit Office's latest report makes is clear why Britain's grid upgrade is falling behind the pace Clean Power 2030 demands - from a decade of missed planning decisions to a governance structure where no one is accountable for delivery. Unless transmission delivery and locational pricing reform both accelerate, the cost of that delay will land squarely on consumer bills.
The Transition Economy · Analysis
As flexibility markets expand across Britain's energy system, the financial rewards seems to be being realised mostly by households who can afford solar panels, batteries and smart meters. We look at whether renters, lower-income consumers and younger households, who NESO data shows are already under-represented in flexibility schemes, risk being left to cover a growing share of network costs while missing out on the benefits.
Expert Voices · Analysis
Ben Bradshaw, Senior Strategy Specialist at SEFE Energy, examines why natural gas remains essential to Europe's energy security even as the shift towards electrification accelerates. He argues that decarbonising gas, through efficiency measures, biomethane and eventual hydrogen conversion, offers a more realistic path forward than an abrupt switch off.
The Transition Economy · Analysis
Flexibility dominated this year's Future of Utilities Summit, with broad agreement that the technology has stabilised and none at all on where the economic case lies. Across the interview series, Sean Layerle, David Watson and Kate Mulvaney set out three different views of what stands between flexibility and the mainstream: risk appetite, consumer trust, and automation that removes the question entirely.