From Britain to the World: What Ofgem’s Energy Debate Looks Like in Global Context - CleanTechnica

The article discusses insights from participation in Ofgem’s Inside Energy podcast series, which explores the UK’s energy transition within a broader global context. Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, faces the challenge of managing a system influenced by international technology trends, supply chains, and infrastructure decisions beyond national borders. The series highlights the rapid pace of the energy transition—from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables, and digital control—and addresses issues such as artificial intelligence, grid constraints, customer impacts, investment risks, affordability, and reliability. The focus has shifted from proving technologies to integrating them effectively for millions of users. A key theme is the concept of "decoupling," where economic growth and fossil fuel emissions no longer move in tandem. Absolute decoupling occurs when GDP rises while emissions fall, and relative decoupling when emissions grow more slowly than GDP. Currently, about 90% of global GDP and 70% of the world’s population are in economies experiencing some form of decoupling—a significant