" Delivering secure and sustainable energy supplies means in broad terms that:
- No customer loses supply of gas or electricity if they would have been willing to pay more for a more reliable supply (or is adequately compensated if they do lose supply); [and]
- Environmental targets to tackle climate change and air pollution are achieved; and,
- Consumers pay no more than they need to, in order to achieve these objectives, whilst at the same time prices are sufficient for investors to make adequate returns."
There are a couple of factors that seem to be omitted (unless they're buried in the details and I haven't spotted them yet) - the effects of Distributed Generation and Storage on the demands on, and nature of, the National Grid for electricity and gas transmission and distribution. This grid has largely, to date, been built around the existence of a relatively small number of very large power (generation) stations. With many low carbon technologies presenting opportunities to have a very large number of much smaller generating plants, with these being very widely distributed, and with the prospect of future storage solutions reducing the need to transfer as much energy via the grid, this could significantly alter how people envisage the future configuration and design of the transmission grid.