Energy weekly highlights—2 May 2019

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This week’s edition of Energy highlights includes the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets’ (Ofgem) announcement that customers will automatically receive compensation from 1 May 2019 if they are mistakenly switched and not returned to the correct supplier; Innovate UK and UK Research and Innovation’s announcement of a £30m fund available to help develop designs for smart local energy systems and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has launched its second consultation on the future of small-scale low carbon generation. Also this week, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has published its new corporate plan which endeavours to ‘add an additional three billion barrels of production by 2035’ and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has invited experts to apply to become an expert reviewer for the first order draft of the IPCC Working Group I, Sixth Assessment Report. We also include details of our new and updated content, including our new Brexit Toolkit.