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GB energy law weekly: Ofgem ring-fence review, NESO strategic plans, DESNZ heat reforms, revised NPS, case law, international climate and ETS updates, and key dates

Published on: 20 November 2025

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In this issue:

  • Highlights and materials
  • Regulation and licensing of electricity and gas markets
  • Networks and grid connections
  • Renewables
  • Conventional generation, energy-from-waste, biomass, and CHP schemes
  • Planning considerations for energy projects
  • Energy litigation and disputes
  • Air pollution, efficiency, and climate change
  • Global energy
  • Fresh and revised content
  • Diary dates
  • Trackers
  • Energy resources on Lexis+®
  • Daily and weekly news briefings

Key developments and materials

Industry and Regulators Committee launches inquiry into regulators and economic growth

The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has opened an inquiry into how UK regulators interact with economic growth, reflecting the government’s aim for bodies such as Ofgem, Ofwat and Ofcom to bolster investment, encourage innovation and raise productivity across the economy. This examination follows the 2024 decision to extend the statutory ‘Growth Duty’ in the Deregulation Act 2015 to these principal economic regulators. It will assess how Ofgem and its counterparts interpret and put this duty into practice and implementation whilst preserving consumer protections, sustaining market stability and progressing the energy transition across the sector...

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