Electricity retail

ESO to introduce greater price competition for DFS tests

Labour moots green social tariff

Wholesale market reform could deliver “permanent” social tariffs by scrapping existing “pile it high, sell it cheap” retail arrangements and enabling low income customers to benefit from cheaper, renewable electricity, Alan Whitehead has claimed. In a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference, the shadow energy security minister outlined what he acknowledged is the opposition’s “not finalized” thinking on reforms to the retail and wholesale markets. If elected, an incoming Labour government’s “day one” priorities would include fixing the electricity grid and setting up its Great British Energy public company, he said.

Market Stabilisation Charge will expire in 2024

Ofgem proposes bill hikes to cover record supplier debt

Ovo completes SSE migration four years after takeover

Code of conduct to keep flexibility providers in check

Exit fees trapping consumers on expensive fixed price tariffs

Outfox CEO: Customer ban allowed us to improve services

Data institution mooted to manage smart meter information

Net zero tsar claims Sunak’s speech ‘changes nothing’

Energy sector ‘lacks ambition’ on digital innovation, says techUK leader

British Gas extends demand flexibility offering

EDF axes ‘regressive’ standing charges for vulnerable

DFS expected to provide at least three times as much capacity

Scrap supply licences for EVs and heating, new report urges