National Grid ESO to digitise Britain’s energy system and advance the transition to net...
National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) has launched, in what it claims is a world-first, a programme to build a digital replica of the...
Ofgem to consult in November on Price Cap reform
Britain’s energy regulator will consult in November on reform to the Price Cap mechanism regulating energy sales to 15 million UK domestic consumers.
Ofgem wrote...
MA Energy defaults from Balancing & Settlement Code
London-based business power retailer MA Energy has reportedly defaulted out of Elexon’s Balancing & Settlement Code, meaning it cannot take on further customers.
Elexon’s removal...
“Scrap the price cap”, urges Scottish Power’s boss
The boss of a major UK energy generator-retailer has called for the scrapping of Ofgem’s price cap on domestic power bills.
Interviewed by the BBC,...
CRISIS LATEST: Colorado & Pure Planet latest to fail, as IEA spots oil following...
The continuing wholesale gas crisis has claimed its latest victims, with Ofgem today beginning its hunt to find a new provider for the quarter...
Crisis latest: Energy users beg ‘holidaying’ Johnson to quell warring ministers
The global gas crisis’ impact on British industry intensified today, with representatives of one heavy energy-consuming sector calling for direct intervention from Prime Minister...
Latest edition of The Energyst available
The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App.
The Energyst is now published monthly,...
Yorkshire co-op celebrates 5 years, pegs power prices for poor folk, pumps £20k into...
Amid unprecedented doubt and turmoil for energy consumers this week, one of the UK’s biggest power co-operatives provides reassurance, and a vision of localised,...
Wholesale gas trades at record 355 pence per therm, as heavy users urge Johnson...
Britain’s steel, glass and other intensive energy purchasers are seeking urgent relief measures from the Johnson government, as wholesale markets surge to record prices...
Solar, plus zip: PV scoops Putin-esque 99.8% majority of SEG projects
The first fifteen months of Britain’s Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) for microgeneration projects saw solar PV take an overwhelming 99.8% share of projects registered,...
When fixed doesn’t mean fixed
Pozitive Energy customers with fixed price tariffs were surprised this week to receive a letter from the supplier announcing a price rise. This has...
Al Gore’s fund buys 13% of Octopus Energy
An investment fund founded by former US vice president Al Gore has paid the equivalent of £483 million to take a 13% stake in...
Shell Energy to take over failed Green’s clients, as Octopus embraces Avro
Ofgem today announced it has struck deals with two big energy retailers willing to take over the customers of collapsed suppliers Avro and Green...
Developer Renewco launches with SSE’s blessing
A new clean power developer launched this week in Edinburgh, buoyed with £ 24 million worth of backing from industry giant SSE.
Renewco Power, co-led...
Ecotricity advances acceptance date in Good Energy takeover battle
Green power entrepreneur Dale Vince today brought forward a decision deadline for investors in rival supplier Good Energy, in a move seen by some...
“Strip out gas to clean grid by 2035” – 13 big firms to Kwarteng
Major corporate energy users Thames Water, BT and the Co-op are among thirteen big employers today calling for 100% decarbonisation of Britain’s power by...
No new fields? By 2030, North Sea oil “could be slowing to halt”, OGA...
Developments today threaten to deepen the gloom, both long- and short-term, around the global crisis affecting Britain’s gas prices:
oil and gas regulator the...
Drax targets 80% British sourcing of ‘world’s biggest’ BECCS project
Pellet-burning behemoth Drax is offering British suppliers the chance of contracts it values at ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’, in its bid to build...
CRISIS LATEST: BEIS mulls windfall tax for gas profiteers. Two suppliers quit. Analysts warn...
Turmoil in the prices paid for Britain’s wholesale and retail gas is likely to continue deep into 2022, a leading analysis firm predicted today,...
France link blaze cuts 1GW, pushes UK prices to record highs
Yesterday’s fire in Kent affecting IFA1, the UK’s biggest cross-border interconnector, has sent power prices to record highs, with 1GW remaining off the market,...