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Ovo Energy has announced it has installed the first widely-available V2G charger at the home of one of its customers.
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Eon has confirmed it does not expect “any material effect” on either the timing or delivery of the the major asset swap between itself and RWE following the collapse of the proposed Npower and SSE merger.
The annual progress report on the smart meter programme, published by BEIS in the run up to Christmas, says that more than 176,000 gas and electricity SMETS2 meters were connected to the Data Communications Company’s (DCC) system by the end of November last year.
The partnership will offer the energy supplier’s 85,000 customers boiler and electrics cover.
More than 14,000 trees were planted at Ogden Water last month as part of Yorkshire Water’s “big goal” for the environment, which aims to create a new “green infrastructure”.
After an eventful year for utilities, Utility Week looks backs on the most read stories of 2018.
2018 will be remembered for a number of key events in the energy retail sphere, namely the confirmation of the energy price cap and the influx of failing energy suppliers.
You might be forgiven for thinking that not much has happened in the water retail sector in the past year, so marginalised is it by the national newspapers, which often latch onto the energy sector. Look closer, however, and you would find that there is a great deal going on.
Change is usually accompanied by uncertainty. Driven by the need to decarbonise, the energy industry is in the midst of a radical transformation. Whilst the end goal is clear, the route there is still being plotted out.
The past year has been a perfect storm for the water industry. Weather extremes are increasingly becoming the norm and the cracks of an ageing infrastructure are starting to show.
There are now just eight energy tariffs on the market that cost less than £1,000 a year, compared to 77 in January 2018, research from Which? reveals.
Thames Water has been fined £2 million and ordered to pay full costs of nearly £80,000 after raw sewage polluted two Oxfordshire streams, killing almost 150 fish.
Npower said it is disappointed by the High Court ruling and has separately called on the regulator to explain what its intentions are for the future of collective switch trials.
Moody's said it took into account the announcement of 17 December that the merger between SSE and fellow large supplier Npower will not occur as previously announced.
Energy provider Engie has become the newest member of the Energy Switch Guarantee (ESG), an industry initiative to make "switching simple and safe" for customers.
British Gas owner Centrica is seeking a judicial review against Ofgem over how the regulator calculated wholesale costs when it set the level of the incoming energy price cap.
Mid-tier supplier Ovo and heat battery producer Sunamp have been awarded £1.6 million of grant funding from the government’s low-carbon heating technology fund.
A ban on the outdoor use of metaldehyde that is to be introduced across Great Britain from spring 2020 will ultimately benefit the water treatment process.
South East Water has become the first domestic water supplier to partner with Hive, Centrica's connected home provider, to help customers monitor their water usage and detect and reduce leaks.
The upcoming review of network codes, announced by Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) secretary of state Greg Clark in his Institute of Directors speech last month, is being carried out jointly by Ofgem and the department.