Auditors issue damning report on Robin Hood Energy
Auditors Grant Thornton have issued a damning report on the political and leadership failings that have left Robin Hood Energy’s future in the balance.
The...
Npower doubles Eon’s UK sales, 5,000 job cuts loom, b2b sale undecided
Eon doubled UK energy sales in the first half of the year despite the impact of Covid-19, thanks to the inclusion of innogy operations,...
TPI warns fixed energy contract prices set to soar
Fixed energy contract prices for industrial and commercial businesses are set to soar – and are likely far less ‘fixed’ than consumers believe, an...
Simic Atlantis share price soars on Uskmouth debt finance framework
Simec Atlantis has seen its share price soar in early trading after striking a financing deal with South Korea's Hana Financial Investment (HFI) for...
Effortless Energy exits
Effortless Energy Ltd has ceased trading, Ofgem has confirmed. The supplier had around 2,500 domestic customers and a small number of business customers.
Trading as...
SME supplier Dual Energy becomes Smartest Energy Business
Smartest Energy Business is the new name for Dual Energy, the SME energy supplier acquired by Smartest Energy last year.
The Business division will continue...
Robin Hood Energy sold to Centrica
Nottingham City Council-owned Robin Hood Energy has been sold to Centrica. Some 250 staff have been told they face redundancy, according to the Nottingham...
Clean power, PPAs, greener gas: Sign up here for free expert procurement webinars
The Energyst is hosting a series of expert webinars next week, covering everything industrial, commercial and public sector organisations need to know about energy...
After Bristol Energy, Yü CEO eyes more buys
Yü Group CEO Bobby Kalar is planning more acquisitions, having taken on Bristol Energy last month.
The firm’s share priced climbed 20 per cent in...
John Lewis Partnership and Engie ink major PPA, energy services deal
The John Lewis Partnership has signed a major energy services and supply deal with French utility Engie.
The three-year contract covers clean energy supply, including...
Balancing services task force: Everyone should pay based on power consumption
All final demand customers should pay grid balancing charges that are based on a set £/MWh basis, according to the Balancing Services Charges Task...
Total acquires Ørsted’s UK B2B customer portfolio
Total has signed an agreement to purchase the majority of Ørsted’s UK business to business gas and electricity customer base. Total has agreed to...
CMA tells water companies ‘manage your energy bills’ as it rejects option to recoup...
A decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will force major energy buyers in the water sector to take a more active approach to...
“The time is now”
Scottish Power’s Danny Parr on the need to step up the energy transition. Among the changes brought about by the Covid-19 crisis, there is a...
Covid impact on demand puts pressure on electricity prices
What will happen to electricity prices in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic? And what can users do to prepare for the impacts? These...
Are corporate PPAs the key to unlocking green energy?
Alongside battery storage that helps tackle the intermittency of solar and wind power generation, and more sophisticated networks that can deal with different levels...
Business energy switches up 17% during lockdown with price trumping decarbonisation
Love Energy Savings reports a surge of +17% in business energy switches during the UK COVID-19 lockdown period, in comparison to the same period...
Testing times for gas, as Covid crisis and carbon targets force changes
The Covid pandemic has thrown up unprecedented challenges for the gas sector, and that is the topic that Eddie Proffitt, technical director of the...
H21: making the hydrogen switchover happen
For a large gas distribution operator like Northern Gas Networks (NGN), keeping its millions of customers going is the number one priority. Examining the...
Shakespeare Martineau ensures more LNG is in the pipeline
The energy team at law firm, Shakespeare Martineau, has completed a project for National Grid Grain LNG (Grain LNG), which will see it enter...