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A council-owned energy company may be scrapped with a loss of £1 million before it begins operating after concerns were raised by the current leadership.
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Energy UK held a roundtable on diversity and inclusion in the energy industry to discuss issues from gender balance, BAME representation to LGBT+ networks and disability inclusion.
"Because of the dramatic pace of change in the industry, we recently took on an exercise to fundamentally reassess what we were here for"
Ofwat’s chief executive has expressed disappointment that water companies are not collaborating enough to tackle problems such as climate change and population growth.
If you have a project, initiative, team or technology that is breaking new ground and exceeds customer expectations − shout about it!
Ofwat has revealed four proposed changes to its 2014 principles for board leadership, transparency and
Customers collectively saved millions of pounds on their bills in the first year of the non-domestic water retail market but significant challenges persist, according to a review of the market’s first year.
The developer behind plans to build a £1.3 billion tidal lagoon plant in Swansea Bay has accused the government of distorting figures used to justify its decision not to back the scheme.
The Institute of Customer Service has released its latest Customer Satisfaction Index (UKCSI) which shows
Speaking at the inaugural Consumer Vulnerability Conference last week, Dan Walker-Nolan, principal of strategy and policy at Ofwat, spoke to delegates about addressing vulnerability in the water sector.
Foresight Solar Fund has raised more than £48 million through a share placing to help fund the acquisition of 18 operational solar assets in the UK.
Marks and Spencer Energy and SSE have announced they will end their partnership of nine
Osprey Acquisitions (Anglian Water), Kelda Finance (Yorkshire Water) and Greensands UK (Southern Water) have received revised outlooks from Fitch Ratings, which has downgraded them from stable to negative.
"Significant challenges lie ahead for English water companies on service delivery, environmental improvement and transparency"
"The challenge now is keeping the electricity grid in balance when there there is a high penetration of renewable energy"
If one thing was clear from Utility Week’s latest Annual Energy Summit, it’s that the industry faces a long list of challenges. Certainly, there were plenty of things to discuss, and speakers had plenty to say.
"Since 2008, Britain’s energy networks have played an important role in the UK’s decarbonisation success story"
The supplier said the 1.4 per cent price increase, which it announced in April and came into effect in June, was not fully reflective of the pressures it faced at the time. Cost-cutting measures allowed it to offset some of the inflation in wholesale power prices, but the company said it can no longer continue to do this.
The UK utilities industry is experiencing an intense period of disruptive change. Macro-economic and political trends
Thames Water will not be issuing more debt out of the Cayman entities and will transfer the functions to a UK plc over the next few months.