Energy cost pressures: Risks, reforms and what industry needs

Join us for a focused briefing on energy costs and market pressures shaping the outlook for technology businesses, data centres, and energy-intensive industries.

Persistently high wholesale prices, rising network charges, and growing constraint costs continue to squeeze margins and challenge investment decisions across the sector.

techUK members have raised particular concerns about price volatility, the pace of transmission charging reforms, and uncertainty around future support mechanisms such as the CfD scheme.

This session will bring in a neutral, system-wide expert to explain the big picture — including wholesale market drivers, transmission charges, AR7 outcomes, and what may push industrial electricity prices higher in the years ahead.

Insights from this webinar will shape our next steps/ action plan on tackling energy costs, ensuring industry voices shape the policy conversation and practical solutions going forward.

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