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Stephen Nash

Scaling up off-grid business models

There remain barriers to scaling up off-grid barriers, and the placemat below identifies some of the practical strategies that companies...

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Can cost reflectivity survive a renewables world?

The importance of cost reflectivity has been central to economic regulation. Price signals that reflect the true underlying cost of an...

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Regulating innovation

Since the deregulation of utilities in the 1990s, a conventional wisdom has been established whereby some utility functions have been...

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A demanding problem: reconciling the need to increase energy access with the need to reduce GHG emis

As I state on the front page of Kuungana’s website, 1.2 bn remain without access to electricity. Clearly addressing that injustice has...

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Making sense of falling solar costs

Solar costs have been falling rapidly and the promise of a carbon-free electricity system seems ever closer. An auction for...

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Mini-grids: new players, new business models, and a need for a new regulatory paradigm

The role of mini-grids is one that is receiving an ever increasing amount of attention across the power sector. In developing countries...

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Unlocking the potential of microgrids

Recently there has also been a shift in donor focus towards less centralised power solutions. In a previous post I presented some (very...

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An energy market for a low carbon world?

This week the UK Government issued a consultation on further tweaks to the Capacity Market, including a possible acceleration of its...

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Radical decentralisation – when does grid defection make sense?

Battery storage is revolutionising the way we think about electricity. Perhaps the most exciting thing about the rapid development of...