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National Grid’s chief executive struck a positive note today (17 May) as the networks operator revealed underlying pre-tax profits up 4 per cent to £2.68 billion.
Electricity consumers will be out of pocket by £1.5 billion due to a change in the rules for the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.
Scottish Power has introduced its first tariff to enable customers to charge their electric vehicles (EVs) at home.
Upfront investment on the distribution network should be encouraged to remove bottlenecks that threaten to stymie the mass roll out of electric vehicles (EVs), MPs have heard.
Western Power Distribution (WPD) has declared the winners of a competition offering participants the chance to access local power grid data to test innovative ideas.
Ecotricity and Next Kraftwerke have teamed up to create a greener smart grid in a bid to regulate the UK’s energy demand, storage and generation in “real-time.”
More than £227 million was invested in 400 independent renewable energy projects last year, reveals Smartest Energy’s 6th annual report.
Electricity North West has launched its vision for how it plans to support the fast-changing
Ofgem’s senior partner for networks, Jonathan Brearley, looked out over the banks of the Rubicon
Centrica is to test the use of blockchain to enable peer-to-peer trading between households and
Ofgem has decided against holding a mid-period review of the current RIIO price control for electricity distribution (ED1).
Alan Whitehead has branded the government-commissioned Helm review as an "unbelievably rushed job" that could "considerably" push up household bills if one of its key recommendations is implemented.
Consumers are paying over the odds for energy networks, with their exposure to excess charges
"We must make sure that the interests of all customers are looked after from the engaged ‘prosumers’ to those who are less engaged in the market"
Ofgem has granted a licence to a subsidiary of Diamond Transmission Partners to own and
Devon has more community energy organisations than any other county in the UK, generating 17,431 MWh of green energy.
Scottish Power has seen a rise in profits over the first three months of 2018 after its generation and supply business rebounded from a poor performance in the same period last year.
An analysis of power demand during the so called “Beast from the East”, when evening peak demand hit a three-year high, exposed the country’s reliance on its biggest electricity interconnector with Europe, according to the Electricity Insights at Imperial College London.