Energy weekly highlights—21 September 2023

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This week's edition of Energy weekly highlights includes: The Prime Minister’s Office announcement that some of the planned measures intended to meet the UK’s net zero target are no longer necessary due to the UK’s ‘over-delivery on reducing emissions’ and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)’s consultation on hydrogen blending and options for its implementation. This week’s highlights also include the House of Lords’ vote to include an amendment 282k in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to ‘reinstate onshore wind development into the planning system’ and to overturn the government’s effective ban on onshore wind projects in 2015, Ofgem’s three consultations on the RIIO-ET1, RIIO-GD1 and RIIO-GT1 close out mechanisms for each of the onshore electricity transmission owners (ETOs), each of the Gas Distribution Network (GDN) operators and the National Gas Transmission (NGT) network and the UK Bioindustry Association’s confirmation of a 15-year partnership with Future Biogas and AstraZeneca to establish the UK’s first unsubsidised industrial-scale supply of biomethane gas.