James Wallin

Four utility businesses praised in climate change leaderboard

The utilities sector has ranked highly in the table of FTSE 100 companies for sustainability performance and reporting.

Price cap ‘could lead to 10,000 job losses this year’

Hinkley Point C costs expected to rise by £2.9bn

Last chance to show off your sustainability credentials in edie awards

Auriga hits milestone of helping two million vulnerable customers

Auriga, a public benefit entity, offers financial help, advice and grants via its partnerships with charities, utility companies, local authorities and the NHS. It manages the charity trusts for Severn Trent, United Utilities and Thames.

Renationalisation would set net-zero goal back, report claims

Frontier Economics, analysing Labour’s Bringing Energy Home plan at the request of the Energy Networks Association (ENA), has said the wholesale changes proposed would divert resources and investment, act as a disruption to innovation and increase costs to customers.

Weekend press round-up: Legislation ready to nationalise utilities

In this weekend's news round-up, Labour’s plans for utilities dominate, with claims that renationalisation legislation has already been drafted. Elsewhere, there are predictions that nine energy suppliers will fail over the next year and accusations that Ofgem isn't doing enough about business failures.

Reeves says BEIS is ‘rowing back’ on CCUS pledges

The chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has accused the government of “barely engaging with the arguments” around carbon capture usage and storage and failing to give any sense of how it will achieve its net-zero targets.

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CfD auction sees record low price of £39.65/MWh