In this CRA Energy Chats podcast, CRA's Laura Sochat joins Simone Accornero, CEO of Flexidao, to look at the green energy certificate markets, discussing their challenges and opportunities in supporting the decarbonisation of global power consumption.  Laura, Francesco and Simone then discuss Flexidao’s proposed solution for a more granular system to track guarantees of origins’ time and location data, assessing the interest of large electricity consumers as well as suppliers for such a solution. Finally, they touch on the implications of Flexidao’s blockchain-based software for the broader energy system are analysed, and how a more precise tracking of green certificates would incentivise the development of renewable energy capacity closer to large demand centres.

In this CRA Energy Chats podcast, CRA's Laura Sochat and David Winter, MD Europe for Flux Federation, take a holistic view of the energy crisis, starting with an assessment of the events over the past two years that led to the current crisis and looking at the key factors underlying the latest events. Laura and David then assess the impact of the crisis on the energy trilemma, discussing the impact of policy and regulation which, for a long time, focused on supply side measures. Finally, David and Laura discuss the key role of data and of having an in depth understanding of the role played by different players in the market, including customers, to provide the flexibility required to a system that needs to transition quickly.

In this episode of CRA energy chats, Doug Cook (Head of Strategy and Ofgem) joins Laura Sochat to discuss some key trends for the year ahead. Looking at the impact of the recent (and ongoing) energy crisis in Europe and the required action to achieve “net-zero” from different players, they discuss some key regulatory developments expected in 2022, such as the Energy Bill and the changes to the price cap.

In this CRA Podcast, CRA's Laura Sochat is joined by Mark Howitt, co-founder of Storelectric, to discuss the challenges for the grid of the energy transition.