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 Home / Gas and Electricity
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Welcome to the Gas and Electricity sector of the DTI’s Energy Group web site.
We develop and implement Government policy towards the electricity and gas utilities in Great Britain. Economic regulation is undertaken by Ofgem.
Key issues at present in this sector include:
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underpinning UK gas supplies for the medium and longer terms through liberalisation of the gas sector within the EU
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ensuring adequate competition among competitor countries and transit states
- extending to Scotland the new electricity trading arrangement - introduced in England and Wales in 2001
- encouraging an effective implementation of the Barcelona agreement on electricity market opening
- ensuring that satisfactory up to date emergency plans are in place, and encouraging the gearing up of electricity networks in Great Britain to help deliver the environmental benefits offered by renewable or CHP embedded generation while continuing to providing security of supply and low prices
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