Tom Grimwood

Weekend press: Government to end ‘prepayment premium’

The government is to end the “prepayment premium” by picking up the additional costs of the meters from suppliers. Also in Utility Week’s latest round-up of the weekend papers, Ofwat seeks new powers to block excessive dividends to shareholders and Thames Water appoints financial advisors to help tackle its mountain of debt.

ESO balancing reserve proposals rejected by Ofgem

Local powers sought to ban technologies in new heat zones

Ofgem seeks to create world’s first distributed energy supermarket

Regional energy system planners proposed by Ofgem

Proposal to reduce gas costs for PPM customers

Octopus engineers trained to upgrade fuses for heat pumps

Rooftop solar installations doubled in 2022

Record capacity auction to cost consumers £5.7bn

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