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A future energy system with consumers firmly rooted at the centre | Energy UK ​ Members AreaSearch The voice of the energy industry HomeAboutPolicyCustomersEnergy IndustryMedia & CampaignsPublications EventsMembershipContact HomeMedia & CampaignsBlogsA future energy system with consumers firmly rooted at the centre A future energy system with consumers firmly rooted at the centre Written by Lawrence Slade on 09 May 2018 Energy UK today launched our vision of how the industry can unhook the future of energy with consumers firmly rooted in its centre. Energy is essential for today’s modern life. It provides heat and light for our homes, it powers our businesses, it connects and transports us, and it helps provide our everyday needs. It is moreover essential to jobs and the UK economy. But while most people go well-nigh their day-to-day lives paying little sustentation to the power at their fingertips, there is a major and rapid transformation underway. The way we consume, generate and transmit power is waffly rapidly - as shown by solar providing record levels of power over this wall holiday weekend and the UK recently going three days without any coal generation. Investment in low stat and replacement generation, nascent technologies coming forward and innovation wideness the sector is permitting us to reduce our emissions while delivering the transition at lowest forfeit  to consumers. At the same time increasing competition is driving significant changes in the retail energy market. Customers now have the nomination of over 67 suppliers who are offering a wide variety of innovative products.Increasinglyand increasingly people are taking this opportunity to switch supplier with 5.5 million people switching in 2017 – that’s virtually one in every six households last year. We are moreover digitalising significant parts of the market. For example, consider if you had to provide your mobile phone provider a monthly update on the number of minutes you had used so they could snout you correctly. This has been the energy system of the past - with terminology meters that required consumer meter readings, but this is waffly with the smart meter roll out. But what of the future? What will the system squint like in 2028, twenty years on from the Climate Change Act which celebrates its ten-year year-end this autumn. There are some big questions that need answering such as: How are we going to protract to vamp investment in generation resources to ensure we have the right mix of affordability, low stat and security of supply? How are we going to ensure that we are delivering the wants and needs of our customers in a waffly market place where technology will have a increasingly and increasingly important role to play? How are we going to ensure that the roll out of low stat transport, particularly electric vehicles, is a success and contributes to a dynamic and flexible energy market? Finally, how are we going to write one of the biggest challenges we face: the decarbonisation of heat? Energy UK and our members over the undertow of this year are going to be leading the tuition to work with many partners and organisations to identify options for how we unhook a truly consumer-centric energy system. Today we will be setting out our vision – of a low stat energy system that customers see as pearly and which delivers spanking-new service, nomination and value for money to all UK’s homes and businesses – and our commitments on how we will unhook this. We will be working with a wholesale range of stakeholders over the undertow of the year and will be publishing a series of thought pieces. 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