The Resilience of the Electricity System - Government Response

This is the government's response, published 1 July 2015.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government welcomes the Committee's report and responds to each recommendation, agreeing with some (on engagement with scientists and ministerial exercises) while declining others, such as specific DSR targets and storage-specific incentives.

• On emergency planning, the government "agrees with the recommendation" and "will continue routinely to carry out exercises", and says DECC will report this to Parliament "where appropriate".
• On Demand Side Response, the government says it has worked to ensure DSR is not disadvantaged in the Capacity Market, but says one-year agreements are the default and DSR "should therefore be able to compete effectively on the basis of one-year agreements". It says specific targets would "lead to less competitive auctions increasing costs to consumers".
• On electricity storage, the government says "We are not currently planning to introduce a framework of incentives specifically for energy storage deployment", and will "continue to keep eligibility for the Contracts for Difference (CfD), including for storage, under review".
• On the single national emergency number, the government says the programme is "on target for implementation by April 2016". On DSR volumes, it says research "is due to be published in summer 2015".

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