Further reading and facts on why Tempus has challenged the Polish Capacity Market
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Tempus challenges European Commission’s approval of Polish energy subsidy scheme
Following the successful application to the European Court to annul the approval of the UK capacity market in November, we have lodged a new legal action to challenge approval of the Polish energy subsidy scheme.
Tempus enforces judgment to remove all unlawful capacity payments and implement its European court victory
Tempus today lodged a legal action to remove all unlawful payments from the suspended capacity market. This should be the responsibility of the UK government, but instead they have unlawfully continued with the scheme. Tempus has no choice but to take action.
Vestager scrambles to save coal subsidies at any cost to energy bill payers, and humanity
The European Commission has appealed against the annulment of the UK government’s Capacity Mechanism, trying to further setback a better energy future as it attempts to have coal subsidies reinstated.
Open letter to BEIS Energy Security Team
Open letter to BEIS Energy Security Team in Response to UK Government Consultation on “Proposals for Technical Amendments to the Capacity Market”
The Capacity Market - investing in a future of dirty diesel generation
The capacity market scheme was designed to facilitate the flow of money to both existing generation sources, as well as encourage the building of new generation. Tempus have been analysing the EMR Delivery body's public data to put together a breakdown of their figures.
Who's afraid of a small-scale reciprocating engine
One of the key failures of the capacity market were the distortions in policy which created a massive bias favouring “small scale reciprocating engines” over cleaner, low carbon technology solutions.
Tempus Energy Response to Claire Perry MP's Statement
“Some aspects of Claire Perry MP's statement are disingenuous and could be accused of misleading the House.” - Tempus CEO Sara Bell addresses the statement made by Claire Perry MP.
We have just removed £5.6 Billion worth of state-aid from the Capacity Markets. Where was this money going?
Tempus Energy challenged the structure of the capacity markets before the first auction even began. This is because we could clearly see the rules were skewed in the favour of polluting fossil fuel generation - four years’ worth of auctions since then have displayed the effect of this oversight.