{"id":89348,"date":"2018-02-26T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1384aeacc5d6ae43923db8e00674a058"},"modified":"2018-02-26T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:00:09","slug":"news-story-cma-dismisses-sse-and-edf-energy-appeal-against-ofgem-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89348","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA dismisses SSE and EDF Energy appeal against Ofgem decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><abbr title=\"SSE Generation Limited\">SSE<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"EDF Energy (Thermal Generation) Limited\">EDF<\/abbr> appealed to the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> (Competition and Markets Authority) after Ofgem decided to reject their request to modify industry rules.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal related to a dispute about the charges paid by electricity generators, including <abbr title=\"SSE Generation Limited\">SSE<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"EDF Energy (Thermal Generation) Limited\">EDF<\/abbr>, for use of the electricity transmission system. In 2016, <abbr title=\"SSE Generation Limited\">SSE<\/abbr> had requested a change to industry rules, which would have resulted in generators receiving a \u00a3120m rebate from National Grid.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"SSE Generation Limited\">SSE<\/abbr> argued that GB generators had paid more in transmission charges in 2015\/16 than the maximum permissible under EU law.<\/p>\n<p>Ofgem rejected <abbr title=\"SSE Generation Limited\">SSE<\/abbr>\u2019s request in November 2017, concluding that the maximum permissible level of charges under EU law <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ofgem.gov.uk\/publications-and-updates\/ofgem-rejects-120m-rebate-request-generators\">had not been breached<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"SSE Generation Limited\">SSE<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"EDF Energy (Thermal Generation) Limited\">EDF<\/abbr> appealed to the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>. The main point of dispute was whether there was an exclusion from the EU cap on transmission charges for the cost of connections between offshore wind farms and the onshore grid.  The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> concluded that &#8211; applying the correct approach to EU law \u2013 there was such an exclusion and therefore there had not been a breach of the cap and Ofgem was entitled to reject the modification request.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s determination, setting out full reasons for dismissal of the appeal, will be published on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/edf-sse-code-modification-appeal\">case page<\/a> shortly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has dismissed an appeal by SSE Generation Limited and EDF Energy (Thermal Generation) Limited against a decision by Ofgem.<\/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\/89348"}],"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=89348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}