Goodbye D-BEIS, hello Department of Energy Security & Net Zero
Premier Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall re-shuffle today revived a ministry focussed exclusively on energy matters, its concerns split away from wider business policy.
Replacing D-BEIS, the...
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...
Northern Powergrid’s communications ‘completely unacceptable’ after Storm Arwen, says minister
Communications with its customers by Northern Powergrid, the DNO with at least 1,600 homes left still unconnected ten days after Storm Arwen devastated northern...
Whitehall advisor Peter Mather “quits BP”, after ‘conflict of interest’ fears
A senior advisor on government energy policy has reportedly stepped down from the BP payroll, as an investigative news source voiced concerns over a...
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...
To replace, or not to replace? “What is government’s heat pump policy?”, asks utilities...
A trade body representing utilities firms has accused energy minister Lord Callanan of “chaos” in going against his own department’s policy over heat pumps...
Kwarteng seeks to calm energy chiefs, as Price Cap’s architect calls for its overhaul
Beleaguered energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng won the support of Britain’s power bosses today, reassuring them that vulnerable consumers would be continue to be protected,...
London Mayor to offer grants up to £20k to insulate 3,200 fuel-poor homes
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is assembling a £51 million pot aimed at insulating the capital’s fuel-poor and leaky homes. Grants of up to £20,000...
Reams of REMA: D-BEIS moots “biggest changes in a generation” to electricity markets
Generators and electricity industry observers have welcomed sweeping changes in Britain’s electricity markets proposed by energy ministry D-BEIS.
Closeness to wind farms, nuclear or gas...
Crisis: Scrapping green levies “saves only £13 a month” says REA, as government consults...
Removing the ‘green levies’ element in gas and electric bills will save average home consumers no more than £153 per year, the Renewable Energy...
MPs eviscerate Ofgem’s failed oversight of 29 supplier collapses
Britain’s energy market regulator was for years asleep at the wheel as it allowed under-capitalised new suppliers unsustainably to break the Big Six’s dominance...
Paying the Bill: Energy figures react to Queen’s Speech
Reaction among energy players and commentators continued today to the Queen’s Speech proposals for energy, including on the sector’s contribution to Britain’s ever-tightening cost...
Crisis latest: Kwarteng stands by price cap, downplays government relief on bills before March
Energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng today re-stated his commitment to a continuation of the default price cap, urging energy customers and retailers to bide their...
Conservatives find new ‘Cost-Plus-Revenue Limit’ work-around for “windfall tax”
The Truss government this afternoon tabled its promised new bill to write into law relief offered to homes and businesses from rocketing energy tariffs.
Energy...
Rees-Mogg dodges Parliament, puts numbers on 6-month business retail energy cap
New energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced this morning that businesses will have a six-month cap, their first ever, to curb rocketing energy prices.
A ceiling...
£163m Humberside factory to challenge China for magnets and rare earths recovery
Construction has begun of a pioneering British plant designed to wrest control from China of recycling valuable magnetic metals used in EVs and wind...
Green generator ‘lawyers up’, goes gunning for Hunt’s ‘smash & grab’ EGL
Energy ministry D-BEIS and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt face a legal threat this morning from a £2 billion investor and builder of 1.5GWp of wind...
Energy industry slates Chancellor
Generators, retailers and advocates for British energy lined up this morning to voice disquiet and quiet dismay over chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s tax raises on...
Energy Security bill: stakeholders offer reaction
Industry observers have reacted to the government’s new energy security bill.
As the lame-duck Johnson administration enters its supposedly final weeks, the bill aims to...
“Most challenging year yet”, say four nations’ community energy pioneers
Hundreds of thousands of volunteer owners and operators of Britain’s potential-rich but beleaguered community energy movement are recovering from their ‘most challenging year yet’,...