Latest Utility Regulator newsletter published

We have published our latest newsletter which provides an overview of our work over the past month.

In this edition, we extend a warm welcome to our 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.

We also focus on the Final Determination for RP7, our 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.

We also look at our Electricity Smart Metering Consumer Impact Research Report, our formal review of Power NI’s regulated tariff and the research for our fifth annual Domestic Consumer Insight Tracker survey.
 
We 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. 
 
Our 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 our Head of Energy Futures, Roisin McLaughlin, and Energy Futures Manager, Michael Campbell, both of whom oversee our work on NISEP.
 

We would be delighted to hear any feedback you have on our newsletter, and any issues you would like to see covered in future editions, via info@uregni.gov.uk