{"id":54666,"date":"2015-03-04T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=817f0230b7e06588780c022e617addfa"},"modified":"2015-03-04T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T07:00:02","slug":"news-story-cma-receives-two-appeal-applications-over-electricity-distribution-network-price-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54666","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA receives two appeal applications over electricity distribution network price controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The details of these price controls <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ofgem.gov.uk\/publications-and-updates\/ofgem-announces-%C2%A317-billion-new-investment-package-and-reduces-pressure-customer-bills\">were announced in November 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The applications for permission to appeal are made under section 11C of the Electricity Act 1989 and relate to price controls made for the 8-year period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2023. BGT is not an electricity distribution network operator; it is seeking to appeal as a party materially affected by the decision.  <\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) must now decide whether to grant permission, and if it does so, it then has 6 months to determine the appeals. <\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/energy-licence-modification-appeals-for-participants\">our guidance<\/a> for further details on the process for such appeals. More information will be published on the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> website in due course.  <\/p>\n<p>The appeals are separate from the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s ongoing investigation into the retail energy market. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited and Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) plc and British Gas Trading Limited (BGT) have sought permission from the CMA to appeal against Ofgem\u2019s RIIO-ED1 price controls for electricity distribution companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}