Helm Review of UK Energy to be Published Oct 25

Leading energy economist Dieter Helm has completed his review of the UK energy market and it will be published October 25, the UK government's Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy told NGW.

The government announced August 6 it had commissioned Helm to carry out an independent energy review which will recommend ways to keep power prices as low as possible. 

It was to consider the whole electricity supply chain – generation, transmission, distribution and supply. It was announced by Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark who said the ambition is for the UK to have the lowest energy costs in Europe, for both homes and businesses.

BEIS said the review would also consider implications of the changing demand for electricity, including the role of innovative technologies such as electric vehicles, storage, robotics and artificial intelligence.

The review panel included: Terry Scuoler, CEO of UK engineering manufacturers confederation EEF; Nick Winser, chairman of the Energy Systems Catapult and a former director for 11 years of National Grid; Isobel Sheldon, engineering director of Johnson Matthey Battery Systems; Richard Nourse, managing partner of venture capital fund Greencoat Capital; and former parliamentarian Laura Sandys, CEO of consultancy Challenging Ideas.

William Powell