Cornwall Energy regularly responds to and engages in industry and policy debates. Our responses and presentations can be found in this section by year. To access these please either click on the relevant year in the lefthand navigation page or browse the current  year's below:

Give thy thoughts no tongue? We offer Ed Davey some gratuitous advice

Ed Davey has been the new energy secretary for just over a week. Already he has had no shortage of advice. We asked ourselves what letter we might write if we were asked to. We have enlisted a little help from William Shakespeare in the form of Polonius advice to Laertes from Hamlet, and this is what we have come up with, ignoring that advice ourselves along the way.

You can download the full letter here. Contact Alison Morris on 01603 283635 for more details.

Professor Littlechild likens Ofgem’s RMR proposals to Procrustes’ bed - February 2012

We recently published in Energy Spectrum a shortened version of Professor Stephen Littlechild's response to Ofgem's consultation on its proposals for the domestic market under the Retail Market Review (RMR). Professor Littlechild was critical of the regulator's "one size fits all" approach to tariff setting and instead suggested a Competition Commission review of the market would enable a more dispassionate analysis.

Professor Littlechild is currently a Fellow in privatisation, regulation and competition at the Cambridge Judge Business School having previously been a member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission from 1983 to 1988 and director-general of Electricity Supply from 1989 to 1998.

You can download Professor Littlechild's full response here. Contact Nigel Cornwall on 01692 407865 for more details.

Former regulator agrees cash-out reform mechanism is needed - February 2012

Professor Stephen Littlechild has formally submitted a response to Ofgem's consultation on whether it should carry out a Significant Code Review that could enable changes to the present electricity cash-out mechanism, and if so whether such a review should be narrow or broad-ranging. Professor Littlechild welcomed Ofgem's initiative and said "the cash-out mechanism is indeed fundamental to the functioning of the GB electricity market".

You can download Professor Littlechild's full response here. Contact Nigel Cornwall on 01692 407865 for more details.

Ofgem is right to suggest electricity cash-out SCR - January 2012

In our response to Ofgem's issues paper on the failings it sees with the current electricity cash-out regime we have given our support to the proposals for the regulator to undertake a Significant Code Review (SCR). We believe the problems need to be tackled sooner rather than later, and have posited some areas that the SCR should prioritise and focus on.

The full response is available here. Contact Nigel Cornwall on 01692 407865 for more details.

Cornwall Energy to review non-domestic energy markets - January 2012

We are embarking on a project for Consumer Focus updating a review of the non-domestic energy markets that we undertook for energywatch, one of Consumer Focus' predecessor organisations, back in 2004.

If you are a micro-business then please feel free contribute to the study.

You can have a look at the Consumer Focus website for more information on the project or contact Robert Buckley on 07717 471317.

Looking to find out more on the Green Deal and ECO? - January 2012

Then request a copy of our latest primer.

In light of the current DECC consultation on the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO), Cornwall Energy has developed a Primer to guide stakeholders through the numerous documents that the government is seeking views on.

Contact Caroline O'Leary on 01692 407887 for more details.