Speeches by Young.

“Would a locally determined contributions framework be useful to help local authorities reduce greenhouse gas emissions and line up with the national objectives? If the answer is yes, how do you think that will work with councils who are rapidly cancelling their climate emergency declarations?”

“Moving on to businesses, we have heard that businesses want to be listened to and want a clear, consistent policy so they know where they stand. That should not be surprising to anyone. How do you balance supporting businesses with ensuring accountability?”

“Obviously, one aspect of the reforms is bringing more assets into the balancing mechanisms?”

“Surely a helpful ambition. We do not want them—”

“I am going to turn to Matthew. One aspect of the reforms is to get participants to improve self-balancing before gate closure happens. What are the behaviours in the current market that are driving those unnecessary balancing actions, and what will need to happen to stop those behaviours?”

“Yes, in the UK.”

“Is it going to need any further resources, or have you already done this work?”

“You said there were other behaviours, as well as—”

“The reforms rely on having more granular and locational data, but can you actually handle that data? Do you have systems in place? Do you have the capacity to do that, and the expertise? It is all very well having huge amounts of information, but if you do not have the capacity to do anything with it, it is not going t…”

“Are you hearing different feedback from different types of players in the system?”

“If I can come to Claire again: is your timetable for reducing the balancing mechanism threshold realistic? Do you have the systems in place? That is going to create a much more complex system of assets for you to communicate with, so do you have the systems in place to do that, at the same time as having all the extra …”

“You are saying it is very hard to create a level playing field between the larger and smaller participants, just because of the availability of—”

“If I can re-ask the question I was trying to ask Matthew: effectively, at the moment you have a system where people are bidding into it. Is there a way that, for much smaller assets where people do not have the capacity to do that, you can effectively use a pull approach, where you have got the data available—no, I am …”

“I was going to come on to that.”

“I think so. I used to work in software. Is it just about adding that locational data that would enable them to make those—”

“Are these reforms going to fix that, or is this still going to be a problem?”

“I think you had already started to answer this question, but I wanted to talk about the interaction between local and national actors. You had already talked about the events that were held, and they sounded like good networking opportunities for the people involved and highlighted some good ideas, but how do you ensur…”

“Yes, in the UK.”

“Maybe I am not fully understanding, and this may not be a sensible question, but is it possible to put some of that rule-making on to NESO’s side, rather than the participants, so there is not so much requirement on participants to understand those rules? Is it possible to have a pull—I am not sure I am describing it v…”

“Yes, lowering the threshold. Beyond bringing them on, is there anything else that needs to happen to drive the right behaviours?”