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Bristol City Council has taken away a contract to supply itself with energy from its own company and granted it to British Gas instead.
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The next decade could see hundreds and even thousands of energy suppliers enter the energy supply market, Dermot Nolan has predicted.
Pure Planet has claimed to be the first UK energy company to offer its employees equal parental rights including leave and pay for all new parents.
The proposed merger between Innogy's Npower and the retail arm of SSE may reduce competition in the energy market and raise bills for consumers, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded.
The incoming chair of the government’s competition watchdog has branded the use of default tariffs by energy companies to bump up prices as a “trick”.
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.
The number of electricity customers switching suppliers remained steady in the first quarter of this year, new Energy UK figures show.
Citizens Advice is urging the energy industry to adopt a “series of measures” to better identify vulnerable customers at risk of self-disconnection.
Flexitricity is to launch a new energy trading service called Flexitricity+ with the aim of
Elexon has outlined proposals to adapt the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) central services to enable customers to buy power from multiple suppliers.
Scottish Power has announced a 5.5 per cent increase to its standard variable domestic gas and electricity prices.
Utilita Energy has filed for a judicial review into the end date for the installation of SMETS1 meters for pay as you go (PAYG) customers.
The fourth paper tackles environmental and social obligations costs, while the fifth seeks views and evidence on the updated competitive reference price approach to setting the initial level of the default tariff cap.
An independent commission set up to improve standards of support for energy customers in vulnerable circumstances has appointed five commissioners and published a call for evidence.
Awareness of utility company support schemes for vulnerable customers is “worryingly low” and suppliers must do more to raise it, customer solutions provider Echo Managed Services has warned.
Suppliers will be obliged to take “all reasonable steps” to enrol SMETS1 meters with the Data Communication Company (DCC), or replace them with fully interoperable SMETS2 devices, under new government plans.
Surging policy costs will push up household electricity bills by almost a third by 2025, experts have predicted, giving Ofgem “little choice” but to repeatedly raise price caps in future.
The Daily Mail has launched a campaign calling on government to relax the rules for the 2020 deadline for the smart meter rollout.
Igloo Energy has launched a smartphone app to enable customers to “stay in control” of their energy usage, manage their account, view bills and take meter readings.
She may be hamstrung by the usual legal restrictions – and her current commitments with