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Top stories today (£) 🚨 Weekend Press: Andy Burnham should ditch net zero, says Dale Vince https://lnkd.in/engB5m84 In our latest review of sector coverage in national media, Dale Vince has urged Andy Burnham to ditch net zero if he reaches No10. Ministers have also called on Burnham's key advisor to be barred from making decisions on Thames Water's future, while United Utilities' boss Louise Beardmore has been given a £435,000 “allowance” by the company despite Ofwat's bonus ban. 👀 Concern over plan for repeat compensation payments Ofgem should be careful with its proposed changes to the rules around suppliers' Guaranteed Standard of Performance (GSOP) payments, Energy UK has warned. Under the proposal, suppliers would make repeated GSOP payments for ongoing customer disconnection issues, instead of the existing one payment per breach, but Energy UK's Ned Hammond told Utility Week said this should be approached “reasonably cautiously”. ⚡ Lithium-ion batteries dominate LDES cap and floor scheme projects Lithium-ion battery energy storage systems are the big winners in Ofgem's long-duration energy storage (LDES) programme, accounting for 11 of the 16 projects moving forward. Stonehaven's Adam Bell told Utility Week this has “important implications for the cost of decarbonisation”, but others have expressed concern that it will create a “class system” among energy storage technologies.