Wessex Water buys automated energy switching platform Flipper, eyes business market
Wessex Water has acquired switching platform Flipper, which automatically switches subscribers onto the cheapest energy deal.
The company, with its future more secure, is looking...
Drax rules out domestic energy retail, but keen to eat B2B suppliers’ lunch
Drax, owner of the UK's largest power station, sees further growth in energy retail and plans to take market share from incumbent business-to-business suppliers....
SSE ramps up smart meter rollout as customer losses accelerate
SSE has now installed over 600,000 smart meters, according to its latest trading statement, a significant increase in the last few months.
However, it lost...
Dave Cockshott leaves Inenco for SmartestEnergy
Dave Cockshott has swapped Inenco for SmartestEnergy. From November, the former Npower director will take on the newly created role of chief commercial officer...
British Gas business energy supply profits wiped out
British Gas made no money from its business to business energy supply division in the first half of this year.
The firm shed 30,000 UK...
Shell enters UK electricity market
Fossil giant Shell has entered the UK industrial and commercial (I&C) power supply market.
Ofgem's register of supply licence applications alerted market participants to the...
Eon’s UK energy sales hit by ‘fierce competition’ as Brexit and ‘interventionist’ policy loom
Eon's UK power sales fell 1.5 billion kilowatt hours, or 8%, in the first half of 2017. Posting half year results, the firm warned...
Breaking ties with oil: The case for LPG
For the scores of commercial premises across the UK that aren’t connected to the mains gas grid, finding a reliable, readily available fuel that...
British Gas: Not retrenching from I&C market, worst of billing pain ‘over’
British Gas says it remains highly focused on the industrial and commercial (I&C) energy market despite suggestions to the contrary. The company also believes...
Whisky distillery toasts 15% energy bill savings from LPG
Whatever a business’s size, energy costs can represent a significant percentage of its overheads. That said, the larger the operation and the more energy-intensive...
Energy procurement: is disruption the new normal?
A long-term energy procurement strategy can save you money, advises Mike Chessum, sales director, Industrial & Commercial Energy and Services at British Gas Business.
If...
New CEO at Drax as Dorothy Thompson steps down
Drax CEO Dorothy Thompson will step down at the year end. She will be succeeded by current chief financial officer Will Gardiner.
The company said Gardiner, who...
Choosing an LPG supplier you can rely on
Flogas outlines its credentials as a supplier of LPG in this sponsored post.
For off-grid businesses making the switch from oil to LPG, choosing the...
‘Mega TPI’ Kinect buys Orchard Energy
TPI behemoth Kinect has added another 1,500 industrial and commercial businesses to its books with the acquisition of Orchard Energy.
The firm, created last year...
Total woos public sector energy buyers
Government funding cuts have seen many public sector energy posts removed or merged and some public sector organisations are having to rethink their approach...
New energy switching app for small firms
Former Npower head of new business development Jon Davies has launched a new energy switching app for small businesses.
With price comparison sites predominantly focused...
Derby City Council launches Ram Energy (powered by Nottingham)
Derby City Council has launched Ram Energy, white-labelling via Nottingham City Council's Robin Hood Energy.
The council joins the ranks of local authorities that want...
Love Energy Savings launches I&C third party intermediary promising ‘total transparency’
SME energy platform Love Energy Savings has hired ex-utility staff in a bid to attract industrial and commercial firms to its new third party...
National Grid: 10 per cent capacity margin over winter, plus ‘sufficient’ gas
Falling demand on the transmission system and the start of the government's insurance policy for power have given National Grid greater headroom over winter.
The...
Doncaster and Islington launch local energy companies via Robin Hood
Nottingham's Robin Hood Energy will partner two new white label operations. Islington Council's Angelic Energy launched this week while Doncaster's Great North Energy launches...