Electricity retail

Latest

ECO scheme to increase by 56%

The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme is to swell from £640 million a year to £1 billion from 2022, the government’s latest fuel poverty strategy for England has revealed. The strategy, which also includes updated metrics for measuring fuel poverty, has been described as “overdue” but still “very welcome”.

4 years ago

Growing debt cloud looms over utilities

4 years ago

Uswitch names most reliable energy suppliers during lockdown

4 years ago

Fuel charity sees demand increase by a quarter due to pandemic

4 years ago

Octopus aims to ‘reinvent energy’ with Fletcher appointment

Octopus Energy’s appointment of Ofwat chief executive Rachel Fletcher "heralds a change in energy", the supplier’s chief executive has told Utility Week. It was recently announced that Fletcher would be stepping down from her position at Ofwat to become Octopus’ director of regulation and economics.

4 years ago

Wholesale costs see price cap rise by £100

4 years ago

Smart lessons from 2020

4 years ago

Good Energy CEO to step down after 20 years

Good Energy chief executive Juliet Davenport has announced she will step down from her role at the company she founded more than 20 years ago. Davenport will remain in place until a successor is found to lead the "transition to a true mid 21st century energy as a service business". She will the take up a non-executive director position with the company as well as its subsidiary Zap-Map.

4 years ago

Eon boss says automatic switching will discourage innovation

4 years ago

Centrica to hire 1,000 apprentices after years of ‘underrecruiting’

4 years ago

Time to act on Covid-related energy debt

4 years ago

Jackson slams ‘bonkers’ approach to gas taxes

Moves to shift taxation and policy costs from electricity to gas would leave the fuel poor households on dual fuel tariffs better off financially, Octopus Energy chief executive Greg Jackson has claimed.

4 years ago

Green tariffs ‘no longer enough’ to show eco-credentials

4 years ago

Smart meter rollout is reaching ‘critical mass’

4 years ago

Outfox ‘changed philosophy’ after ‘period of turbulence’

4 years ago

BEIS and Scottish government clash over smart installs

4 years ago

Octopus calls for ‘sin tax’ on gas use

4 years ago

Ofgem confirms double supplier failures

4 years ago

BEIS committee calls in Centrica over contract disputes

Centrica’s chief executive is being hauled in front of a select committee to be grilled on the company’s controversial “fire and rehire” proposals.

4 years ago

Ovo Energy launches flat-rate smart EV tariff

Ovo Energy and its technology arm Kaluza have launched a flat-rate electric vehicle (EV) tariff which they claim is the first of its kind. Ovo Drive Anytime is described as a “type of use” energy tariff and offers EV drivers a fee of 6p per kWh. While the tariff will still default to off-peak charging, customers have the option to override this and still pay the flat rate.

4 years ago