Utilita pays penalty over switching
Utilita is to pay £450,000 to debt charity StepChange, after Ofgem found the prepayment metering supply specialist had wrongly blocked 40,000 customers from switching to other suppliers.
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Ovo partners with social housing provider
Ovo Energy has partnered with Advantage SW, a social housing consortium in the south west of England, to launch a dedicated energy scheme.
Irish peat power generation set to end by 2030
The Republic of Ireland is set to end using peat turf to fuel three power stations within 15 years.
Minister wants to see waste strategies converge
Environment minister Rory Stewart has challenged the waste industry and waste authorities to improve efficiency and save money by settling on a small number of waste strategies.
New process may speed ‘significant code review’ on faster switching
Ofgem hopes to use an upcoming Significant Code Review on switching to trial a new approach to such reviews.
CCC: renewables beat gas at £78/t carbon cost
The UK government should set out its strategy in the event the cost of emitting carbon does not rise as expected, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said, in a discussion of potential future power scenarios published in advance of the fifth
Members of the Scottish Parliament: energy security is about more than numbers of power plant
The term “security of supply” and suggestion that the lights could go out was “old thinking”, the Scottish Government’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee heard in an inquiry into the matter.
What does the CMA’s decision tell us about RIIO?
Ofgem’s RIIO framework proved robust against its “first serious external review”, ratings agency Moody’s concluded, after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its decision on two challenges to the first electricity distribution pr
New Commission gives Treasury control of budget and strategy on major projects
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne promised a National Infrastructure Commission that would “work out calmly and dispassionately what the country needs to build for its future and hold any government’s feet to the fire if it fails to deliv
National Grid set to extend SBR for winter 2016/17 and start procurement
Ofgem has said it is “minded to” allow National Grid to continue procurement of the Strategic Balancing Reserve (SBR) and Demand Side Balancing Reserve (DSBR) to cover the winters of 2016/17 and 2017/18 although the industry argues the two measure