Shapps reverses Truss ban, launches homes insulation drive in third week in December
Energy secretary Grant Shapps did at the weekend what libertarian PM Liz Truss refused to two months ago, launching an £18 million publicity drive...
Infrastructure Bank offers councils £4 billion for heat networks, as D-BEIS warms three towns’...
More than £30 million from public funds is set to benefit heat networks in Hull, Peterborough & Wigan.
Projects in the first two cities are...
Octopus completes acquisition of Bulb
Extravagantly paid energy tyro Hayden Wood’s “too-big-to-fail” failed supplier Bulb, once the doyen of lying premier Johnson, finally collapsed into the arms of Octopus...
One in four small businesses “will suffer”, says FSB, as Govt cuts energy bill...
Representatives of British business reacted with emotions ranging from despair to resignation today, in response to the government's reduction in protection from rocketing energy...
Citizens Advice: Millions left in dark, as 1 pre-payment meter is cut off every...
3.2 million clients on pre-payment meters saw their power supply terminated last year, equivalent to one disconnection every ten seconds, new research by Britain’s...
Shapps publishes suppliers’ performance on Energy Bill Support vouchers
Energy firms vary unacceptably in their success or lack of it in delivering energy savings vouchers to to customers struggling with high prepayment meter...
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,...