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Recorded on 29 July. We're excited to welcome our second-ever guest host—and our first-ever triumvirate recording. Joining Charlotte and Lucy is Sulaiman Ilyas-Jarrett, former government advisor at the UK Deparment for Energy, Head of Renewable Delivery Policy & Strategy at DESNZ, senior energy adviser in Number 10 during the energy crisis, and currently a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, and host of the Energy Revolution Podcast.
We unpack what the UK's new Energy Secretary means for the future of energy policy, why electrification and demand-side policy are becoming the next major challenge after years of renewable build-out, and how new proposals to reform grid connections could reshape the race to build AI data centres. We also explore whether the UK's successful Contracts for Difference model has reached its limits, before looking at what China's solar manufacturing glut and India's push for domestic production reveal about the trade-offs between industrial policy, energy security and rapid decarbonisation.
In this episode
- What Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh's appointment means for UK energy policy and the shift from generation to consumers
- Why electrification, affordable electricity and demand-side policy are becoming the next frontier of the energy transition
- The debate around locational pricing, grid reform and what really determines where major industrial projects get built
- Ofgem's proposed grid connection fees for data centres and whether large electricity users should pay more for new infrastructure
- Contracts for Difference vs corporate PPAs, and what the next phase of renewable deployment could look like
- China's solar manufacturing oversupply, India's domestic manufacturing ambitions, and the balance between resilient supply chains and rapid deployment