The Utility Regulator has published its October newsletter which provides an overview of its work over the past month.
In this edition, the organisation extends a warm welcome to its new Board Chair, Rosamund Blomfield-Smith and Board Member, Isolde Goggin, both of whom began their seven-year term at the start of October 2024.
There is also a focus on the Final Determination for RP7, the Utility Regulator’s seventh regulatory price control for NIE Networks, which provides an investment package of £2.23 billion in Northern Ireland’s electricity network over the six-year period from April 2025 to March 2031.
The October issue outlines both the Mid-Term Review of the current price control for NI Water, PC21, and the Annual Retail Energy Market Monitoring Report for 2023, which has just been published.
It also looks at the Utility Regulator’s Electricity Smart Metering Consumer Impact Research Report, its formal review of Power NI’s regulated tariff and the research for its fifth annual Domestic Consumer Insight Tracker survey.
This month, the Utility Regulator launched the Domestic and inaugural Small Business Energy Charters for winter 2024/2025, which were developed in collaboration with gas and electricity supply companies, the Consumer Council for Northern Ireland, the Department for Communities and the Department for the Economy.
Its Northern Ireland Sustainable Energy Programme (NISEP) Framework Document for 2025/2027 was published in October, and in this month’s newsletter, you can find out more about the Utility Regulator’s Head of Energy Futures, Roisin McLaughlin, and Energy Futures Manager, Michael Campbell, both of whom oversee the organisation’s work on NISEP.
The Utility Regulator would be delighted to hear any feedback you have on its newsletter, and any issues you would like to see covered in future editions, via info@uregni.gov.uk
