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Ofgem seeks views on how to ramp up domestic flexibility

Ofgem is seeking views on how best to encourage domestic customers to provide demand-side response from devices such as electric vehicle chargers and heat pumps. The call for input comes as a new report from Cornwall Insight and Smart Energy GB highlights the tens of billions of pounds that households could save over the coming decades by using energy more flexibly. Ofgem said demand-side response will enable Great Britain’s rising electricity consumption to better match the growing output of intermittent renewable generators such as wind and solar farms, and is a key element in the government’s plan to decarbonise the electricity system by 2035.

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Why financial support this winter makes sense

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Octopus calls for cap on energy broker commissions

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Customers switching suppliers at highest level since crisis

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Social energy tariff still ‘under serious consideration’

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Octopus to offer free energy to consumers

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Playing off billpayers against taxpayers is ‘zero sum game’

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Call to ditch price cap and introduce a social tariff

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Energy retailers could make £1.7bn profit over next year

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Octopus objects to additional bad debt allowance in PPM cap

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Smart meter network gets 4G upgrade

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Octopus dominates energy supplier star ratings

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Opportunity to use smart meter data for ‘far greater good’

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Striking a balance between affordability and market stability

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Time to unwind Ofgem’s unhelpful interventions

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Social tariff ‘not the right solution’ for fuel poor customers

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Ministers have ‘lost appetite’ for social tariff

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Weekend press round-up: Decision to drop social energy tariff ‘betrays most vulnerable’

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Lack of compensation for PPM ban ‘disappointing’

Energy UK has criticised Ofgem for not yet introducing a compensation mechanism for suppliers to recover debt accumulated from the ban on forced prepayment meter (PPM) installations. The trade association says that it is “disappointing that a process for suppliers to recover bad debt […] is yet to be put in place”, within its response to Ofgem’s consultation on involuntary PPM installs. Energy UK warns against proposals to broaden the scope of the ‘Do Not Install’ (DNI) category to include households including those aged over 85 or under five.

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British Gas record profits are ‘sign of a broken energy system’

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