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Is RIIO2 going according to plan?

Fernando Dominguez says network companies should expect the unexpected when preparing their RIIO2 business plans with net zero in mind.

6 years ago

Gas and power prices rise after EDF faults warning

This week's announcement from EDF about problems within nuclear reactor components has spooked the market and caused a spike in prices. Utility Week looks at the reasons behind the price hike.

6 years ago

Keep calm and connect with customers

Watching the ongoing political car crash that is Westminster, it’s hard to keep track of the constitutional permutations, let alone what all this might mean for utilities, says Suzanne Heneghan

6 years ago

Renewable energy subsidies are ‘poll tax on the poor’

Tim Roache, general secretary of the GMB union, has taken a pot shot at the government’s bill payer-funded subsidies for low carbon projects and also criticised the lack of domestic workers in the renewables industry.

6 years ago

Ageing workers, Brexit and lack of diversity – utilities’ skills shortage

With figures showing 20 per cent of the sector’s workforce will retire within the next ten years, Utility Week talks to experts about what needs to be done to ensure the workforce is fit for purpose, and how the industry is rising to the challenge of protecting workers' mental wellbeing.

6 years ago

Low-carbon technologies struggling to scale up

6 years ago

Orsted blames software issue for outage at Hornsea One

6 years ago

Green light for Glasgow’s COP26 bid

6 years ago

Climate emergency prorogued

The new chancellor’s spending review did little of substance to move towards net zero, but given the political chaos enveloping Westminster it was never likely to, says David Blackman.

6 years ago

Good Energy sees fall in domestic customers as it targets SMEs

Utility Week speaks to Good Energy founder Juliet Davenport about the company's success in targeting the business supply market and the "sticking point" of price in the domestic sector.

6 years ago

Gallery: EDF Renewables opens its largest onshore windfarm

EDF Renewables operates in 22 countries and says its latest onshore windfarm is the largest in Europe. The new project will generate enough power to supply 106,000 homes, the company has said.

6 years ago

SAE reveals plans for tidal-powered data centre

6 years ago

Consortium seeks government backing for net-zero industrial hub

6 years ago

Battery capacity is the issue of the moment

Last month’s blackout highlighted the importance of energy storage – but investors must judge whether the technology is mature enough.

6 years ago

Calls to double bioenergy use by 2032

6 years ago

Orsted exits SME market

Renewable energy supplier Orsted is to stop selling its services to small businesses, with immediate effect. The company talks to Utility Week about the business strategy behind the decision.

6 years ago

Spending review ‘an insult’ to climate change agenda

Utility Week speaks to Labour’s energy spokesman Alan Whitehead about what he called “empty words” in the spending review about climate change. Whitehead said the £30 million set aside for new decarbonisation projects made “almost no difference to the massive challenge ahead" and predicated a public backlash.

6 years ago

Proposals for residual network charging refined

6 years ago

Hunterston B reactor needs ‘additional technical analysis’

6 years ago

Scottish government unveils swathe of green initiatives

6 years ago

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