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ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY
Overcoming intermittency in renewables for long-term, low-cost energy
- Oct 2024
- Bruce Woodman
The impact of intermittency in renewable electricity generation should not be a showstopper for businesses looking to generate renewable power for their own use. In this article, Bruce Woodman, Managing Director of Pure Energy Professionals (PEP) asks if renewables are really as intermittent as they are made out and sheds light on the subject to alleviate investment anxiety in businesses looking to take control of their long-term energy costs.
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CPD made easy for members in energy and natural resources
- Aug 2024
- Energy and Natural Resources Community
ICAEW’s revised CPD regulations came into effect on 1 November 2023. Here’s some helpful information to get started.
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The six human resources implications of the Energy Transition
- Apr 2024
- Mark Kissack
The last twelve months have seen temperatures at above 1.5 degrees warming for the first time. There is a renewed focus on the need to decarbonise the economy to prevent warming getting out of control. The Energy Transition is the systems change required to do this in the energy sector.
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The nine elements of the Energy Transition
- Apr 2024
- Mark Kissack
Finance has a key role to play in combatting global warming.
Energy crisis: why businesses are going off grid
- Apr 2023
- ICAEW Insights
As businesses eat the costs resulting from the turbulent and unpredictable energy markets, more are considering measures to take control of their own supplies.
Call for evidence: VAT energy saving materials relief
- Mar 2023
- ICAEW
The UK government is seeking views on whether the VAT zero rate for the installation of energy saving materials should be extended to additional technologies and to installations in charitable premises.
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The Energy Charter Treaty
- Mar 2023
- Mark Kissack
What is the ECT and why are countries abandoning it?
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Energy Crisis – time to relax?
- Mar 2023
- Jo Butlin
Prices are currently falling but we should not be taking anything for granted.
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Offshore Wind and Hydrogen – One of the paths to decarbonisation?
- Oct 2022
- Tania Songini
New government, new policies…. Offshore wind, however, has remained a centrepiece of UK energy strategy and policy for well over a decade now and will continue to be going forward, with a target of 50GW by 2030. Over the last three years, we have also witnessed the parallel rapid rise of hydrogen (green and blue) as a key component in the UK’s future energy mix, with an ambitious target of producing 40 GW by 2030.
Government business energy plan revealed
- Sep 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Businesses will automatically receive a reduction in energy costs from 1 October 2022.
Chart of the week: energy price cap update
- Sep 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Our weekly chart returns with an update on the energy price cap, highlighting the impact of the 80% rise in October and the prospect of further rises next year.
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Letter from the ICAEW Energy & Natural Resources Community advisory group Chair
- Sep 2022
- Mark Kissack
It is an honour and a privilege to take over as Chair of the Energy & Natural Resources Community advisory group. I would like to thank William Roberts, the outgoing Chair, for his leadership over the last six years. He has been and I will continue to be supported by our advisory group, namely, Fabiola Branz, Jo Butlin, Asif Chowdhury, James Close, Edwin Hamilton, Julia Piechozek, Karen Smout and Tania Songini.
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“Energy Transition – Not so fast!”
- Jul 2022
- Mark Kissack
Time is running out to make a difference.
ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY
Europe’s energy and electricity supply challenges before and after the Ukraine war
- May 2022
- Mark Kissack
Energy is an essential component of modern life. It impacts our homes through heating and electricity. It also impacts our mobility whether by car, bus, train or airplane. Energy is an important cost of most manufacturing, agricultural and service businesses. It is vital for the economy as a whole.
Chart of the week: Fuel prices
- May 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Our chart this week gives a breakdown of what makes up the cost of petrol and diesel, which continue to soar in price despite the temporary cut in fuel duty.
SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNITY
Where does the finance profession start with playing its part in solving the ever-increasing global crises?
- May 2022
- Olivia Cox
The invasion of Ukraine has accelerated the urgency to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, with the case for renewable energy now front and centre for the business community as sustainability is strategic for every business.
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The role of hydropower in the energy transition
- Apr 2022
- Fabiola Branz
The case for hydropower and the challenges that it faces.
Deloitte: rising energy prices will not cause a recession
- Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Economists from Deloitte examine how surging energy bills are affecting different sectors, while deflating concerns about recession due to built-up household savings from the pandemic.
Chart of the week: Europe’s gas supply
- Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Our chart this week looks at Europe’s natural gas supply and its current reliance on Russian gas to keep homes warm, businesses operating and gas-fired power plants generating.
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UK scientists may have set a new record for generating energy from nuclear fusion but commercial application still years away
- Feb 2022
- Edwin Hamilton
Scientists in Oxford have set a record for generating energy from nuclear fusion, which is seen as a potential future source of near limitless power, however the experiment still consumed more energy to create the fusion reaction than the energy released by it, but a sustained fusion event like this is a major advance.
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