Power market volatility at the highest for at least 13 years
Extreme price movements have been seen across commodity markets in 2021, with current power market volatility at the highest for at least 13 years. In...
Carbon intensity at 181 gCO2/KWh across August’s grid, as power prices break records
Low power demand, CCGT outages and increased availability of French nuke-sourced imports push carbon intensity to a near-record low for electricity last month, National...
Haven Power changes its name to Drax
B2B renewable energy supplier Haven Power is changing its name to Drax. Haven Power is one of the UK’s biggest renewable energy suppliers to businesses...
Good Energy: Half good, but chiefly better
Takeover target Good Energy looks to be sailing untroubled through the unwanted attentions of rival Ecotricity, posting strong financial results today for the half...
Green gas primes jobs bonanza, Energy Networks Association promises
Hydrogen projects now on or approaching Britain’s drawing boards could create at least 17,000 high-tech jobs in the nation’s industrial heartlands, research published this...
Good Energy battle heats up, as Ecotricity raises offer 18% to £4.00 per share
The takeover battle between Britain’s two oldest ‘pure’ green power pioneers intensified at lunchtime today (Thursday 16th), as Dale Vince’s Ecotricity raised its bid...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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,...