Energy weekly highlights—16 January 2025

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This week's edition of Energy weekly highlights includes: two news analyses on (i) key energy law developments in 2024 and expectations for 2025, and (ii) commentary on key changes in the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). In addition, this week, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) published a letter to Ofgem, proposing a series of transitional arrangements to facilitate the implementation of connections reform, and Ofgem has since published a decision approving these arrangements. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) also published the response to its December 2023 consultation on the proposed Heads of Terms for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Network Code, and Ofgem launched a statutory consultation on five proposed changes to the Capacity Market (CM) Rules.