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Pennon Group, which owns South West Water and Viridor is the first water services and waste management utility to secure the Fair Tax Mark.
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Tests set by Ofgem for approving a new subsea transmission cable to link the Orkneys with mainland Scotland threatens the viability of a project designed to tap into the islands’ rich wind and tidal power resources for the UK electricity grid.
The announcement that SSE will not pursue its planned SSE Energy Services tie-up with Npower
The energy regulator has published plans to slash in half the returns that energy networks can make in its proposals for the new RIIO2 price control framework, which covers the electricity and gas transmission networks together with gas distribution.
Suppliers should be stripped of responsibility for carrying out household energy efficiency improvements, a government adviser has said.
Energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry announced £170 million worth of funding to help high emitting industries, like cement and steel, to cut their greenhouse gap levels at the UN COP24 climate change talks in Poland last week.
Presenting evidence to the House of Commons environmental audit committee about the Budget on Wednesday (12 December), junior Treasury minister Robert Jenrick was quizzed about the announcement on carbon pricing in October’s tax and spending annual statement.
The government has announced that the electric vehicle (EV) home charge points it funds must use "smart" technology from next July in a move that could head off the need for expensive network upgrades.
This year has seen a record-breaking amount of new UK offshore wind capacity installed, according to new figures from Renewable UK.
SSE has confirmed it is in discussions with the designated board members for the new energy retail company, which was expected to be created with the now scrapped merger between SSE Energy Services and Npower.
SSE plc continues to work on separating SSE Energy Services as an independent, self-sufficient entity within the group, in preparation for its future outside it.
The planned merger between SSE and Innogy’s retail arm Npower, which would have created the UK’s second largest energy supplier, has been called off.
Customers are able to automatically instruct their devices to charge or turn on when energy is cheapest and reduce their consumption at peak times when prices are higher and the system is strained.
Ofwat confirms outperformance and underperformance payments for Severn Trent, Anglian Water, South West Water and Hafren Dyfrdwy.
In a study on the political risks weighing on UK utility ratings, Standard and Poor (S&P) has estimated that the upfront costs associated of implementing Labour’s public ownership policy is between £140 billion and £160 billion.
National Grid has announced the appointment of Andy Agg as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Agg previously served as the interim CFO.
Start-up energy companies have disputed a national media report which claims they are in debt following an "investigation" looking at some of the cheapest tariffs on the market.
