It’s time to have your say: be part of the Business Energy Tracker 2023
By Anthony Ainsworth, COO of npower Business Solutions
In 2022, we conducted a major piece of research among 200 large energy users that asked them...
Czechs write cheque to buy InterGen
Independent power producing major InterGen has been sold by its parent company to Czech investors Creditas Group for an undisclosed sum.
With over 25 years’...
Boost UK productivity? Get suppliers – including utilities – to stop wasting employees’ time
Abysmally managed customer service, including that offered by power & utilities suppliers, imposes productivity losses of £11.4 billion every month on Britain’s economy, a...
BP leapfrogs Shell’s profits, spurs renewed calls for heavier windfall tax
BP today outdid Shell by declaring a sanctions-boosted doubling of profits for 2022, up to £23 billion.
The figure is a new record for the...
Utilidex and Eneco partner together to deliver a cloud-based complex billing platform
Eneco, is an international energy company that supplies customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and UK with 100% renewable energy. Utilidex offers a platform...
Good Energy hots up SET rivalry; plans roll-out to 80,000
Long-standing green energy pioneer Good Energy, Britain's biggest voluntary Feed-in Tariff (FiT) administrator with over 80,000 generation customers, has launched a new smart export...
Fashion retailer H&M finds good (non-FiT) fit with Lightsource bp on two Midlands farms
Fashion shoppers in Swedish brand H&M’s UK stores will now be browsing its wares in light provided by clean power made on British solar...
“Millions could switch supplier” after July, as homeowners chase deals: Cornwall Insight
Analysts believe uncounted droves of British home power accounts stand ready to flit between suppliers this summer, as falling energy wholesale prices coupled with...
Smart phoning: Vodafone dials into 5 solar farms, as domestic on-roof PV instals double
Mobile telecoms giant Vodafone has reached agreement with Centrica and solar developer Mytilineos to fund five new PV farms, capable of providing it with...
UrbanChain to add storage & EV charging stations to its trading exchange
Buoyed by government recognition, energy trading platform UrbanChain is set to add EV charging stations and batteries to its renewable energy trading market.
It comes...
REMA responses “strengthen case for radical reform”: Cornwall
Replies to Britain’s biggest ever consultation on energy market reform underline the case for a far-reaching revamp, consultants Cornwall Insight believe.
D-ESNZ yesterday published its...
Facilities, managed: Energy Systems Catapult stretches to Active Building Centre
Not-for-profit technology advisors Energy Systems Catapult have acquired ‘key parts’ of the Active Building Centre.
The ABC was launched four years ago under the government’s...
High power prices slow firms’ investment & recruitment, 2,300 tell ABB
Sustained high energy prices are deterring spending by large and small companies on recruitment, training and investment in productivity upgrades, research commissioned by multinationational...
Government energy supports “misses out on big firms’ needs”, nPower finds
Two-thirds of larger businesses believe the Energy Bills Discount Scheme, due to come in next month - won’t go far enough to support them,...
A date for your diary
Discover the Power of MEUC: Join them at the Spring Conference and Exhibition on Wednesday 26th April 2023 | Church House, Westminster, London
Join energy and...
April’s end of Energy Bill Relief threatens 370,000 small firms, says FSB
The end of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme eight days from today could threaten the future of hundreds of thousands of small firms, according...
Is the energy crisis still impacting business confidence?
The Business Energy Tracker 2023: is the energy crisis still impacting business confidence?
By Anthony Ainsworth, Chief Operating Officer (COO), npower Business Solutions (nBS)
Last year,...
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...
“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...
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...