Chart of the week | Ofgem’s plans revised due to COVID-19

On 16 April, Ofgem issued an online update on the re-planning of its priorities and workload over the coming months in light of the impacts of COVID-19. Please note that the deliverables presented in Figure 1 were not all necessarily due in April, rather this is to represent where we are now.

In this ‘Chart of the week’, we consider what the changes to Ofgem’s Forward Work Programme (FWP) mean for some of the regulator’s key deliverables during 2020-22.

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