Leeds leads on solar parking: City opens UK’s first canopy-powered Park’n’Ride
How often does the sun shine on Yorkshire? With typical modesty, canny Leeds councilpersons may reckon the sun is the county’s gift to the...
Broke, and broker: 3 million SMEs suffer in contact with tariff intermediaries, Octopus poll...
A poll released today by Octopus Energy for Business finds approximately 3.2 million small businesses have emerged bruised in their dealings with energy tariff...
Hub, hub, hooray! Government offers SMEs tips to cut bills & carbon
The government launches today a service to help Britain’s 5.5 million SMEs save on their energy bills while reducing their carbon emissions.
The UK Business...
British Gas’ nine-fold hike in profits sparks rage
Centrica. the parent of leading UK supplier British Gas Energy, today posted half year operating profits for 2023’s first six months of £2.1 billion,...
Ofgem’s reform broom: “sharp practice” curbs on business supply, capital thresholds for home retailers
Britain’s energy regulator today introduced its widest-ever raft of reforms in heat and power supply, aiming to lift standards of customer service, curbing sharp...
Octopus extends Zero Bill homes concept, aims for 10,000 by 2025
Britain’s second largest energy supplier has found a new partner in its dream to deliver 10,000 new energy bill-free homes before 2025.
Octopus Energy is...
Drink in that Northants sunshine! Britvic quaffs 33.3 GWh, Tangos with PPA broker Squeaky
Beverage bottler Britvic, owner or licensee of drinks brands including Tango, Robinsons, 7Up & Lipton Tea, is to source 75% of its UK power...
UKRI boosts sustainable energy research with £53 million
Taxpayer-supported grant giver UK Research & Innovation is helping energy-related research at six centres, with £53 million of new money.
Greater complexities in power distribution,...
Why businesses need to understand what’s happening with wholesale energy prices
By Sam Bannister, Portfolio Manager at npower Business Solutions
It may not surprise you to learn that one of the questions my team and I...
Cornwall: “Wait to late 2030s for a return to pre-Covid prices”
Respected energy economists Cornwall Insight expect no return to pre-Covid power prices before the late 2030s at the earliest.
Despite Europe’s & the world’s continuing...
“No backsliding to tiny reserves & feather-bedded shareholders”, Ofgem warns suppliers
Britain’s energy regulator today warns under-capitalised suppliers that government could intervene to prevent a repeat of 2021’s collapse of 28 suppliers.
With energy retailers forecast...
Energy firms extend lifelines to SMEs caught in “excessive” tariffs
Commercial power retailers EDF and British Gas are the first major suppliers reported to have offered lower cost deals designed to rescue thousands of...
Big growth planned for sustainable utility specialists
Utilities management experts, eyebright expect business revenue to more than double in the next three years. In the last 24 months, savings achieved by...
nBS launches trading platform for energy managers
Corporate energy supplier npower Business Solutions has launched a suite of flexible energy trading solutions designed to help businesses trim energy bills and maximise...
Exports, plus electrification of everything, will push UK power prices higher before 2030; Cornwall
Exports directed at plugging gaps in continental baseload will keep UK power prices at historically high levels for the rest of this decade, latest...
Top to toe: SSEN seeks flex contracts covering 15 zones
Distribution network operator SSEN is seeking partners offering flex services across fifteen zones, in areas spanning the Highlands and southern England as far north...
YLEM launches power trading platform
Clean power company YLEM Energy is launching a peer-to-peer platform, as it branches out from its core business of managing onsite power generation for...
Ofgem persuades powercos to ease up installations of prepayment meters
Britain’s consumer champion tasked by law with protecting power consumers has backed Ofgem’s new deal slowing power companies’ readiness to instal prepayment meters in...
“1 million SMEs locked into high energy tariffs”, business groups warn
Trade groups representing up to four million small businesses have told the government that firms locked into expensive fixed price energy contracts should be...
Smart meter roll out ‘will struggle to meet 2025 deadline’: Cornwall Insight
The government’s goal of achieving a smart meter in every British home by 2025 is looking harder to achieve, according to new polling of...