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The last thing recession-hit Britain needs is more tax, but the UK carbon floor price is just that. Consumers, businesses and utilities are unhappy about it
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Northern Irish heavy industry has some of the highest electricity bills in Europe, according to the region's Utility Regulator.
United Utilities expects its annual underlying operating profit for 2012/13 to be slightly higher than 2011/12 as it tries to keep costs down, the company said in a market update today.
Debate continues over how one of the key initiatives in the Energy Bill - a capacity mechanism - should be handled. Drawn up in response to fears of future electricity supply shortages, the capacity market would allow government to pay generators who can guarantee to supply electricity, and to customers who can guarantee to reduce their demand, at times when supply is tight.
It's a gloomy outlook for many as chancellor George Osborne gears up to announce more cuts in his third Budget speech on 20 March. However, Megan Darby spots some rays of sunshine for utilities
Without state aid approval, EMR is dead in the water. Paul Brennan looks at the hurdles it will face and its prospect of clearing them
Labour's energy secretary in waiting, Caroline Flint, is gunning for the energy regulator, and its handling of the retail market. Ellen Bennett asks her why
Nevin Sood says the loss of the CRC performance league table from here on in leaves the scheme all stick and no carrot
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has appointed a former employee as the new head of the Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil (OfUGO).
Anglian Water has been ordered to pay more than £20,000 in fines and costs by Great Yarmouth Magistrates for allowing sewage and trade effluent into a Norfolk beauty spot.
UK Power Networks and Northumbrian Water were the main drivers of growth for Hong Kong-based owner CKI last year, according to financial results announced on Thursday.
Ofgem's price control for gas distribution companies will lead to 3,000 job losses and put lives at risk, GMB claimed today after National Grid confirmed it was accepting the package.
The Energy Market Reform (EMR) proposals will 'make or break' the wave and tidal energy sector, according to a report by Renewable UK.
Gazprom is keen to see its Nord Stream gas pipeline extended to the UK, and various options are being explored, but does another interconnector make economic sense, asks Keith Nuthall?
British Gas operating profits rose 9 per cent year-on-year to £1,093 million in 2012, according to preliminary results announced today. That came despite a 9 per cent drop in business energy supply and services, attributed to a "difficult climate".
Carbon prices plummeted on Monday after a European Parliament committee vote that would have fast-tracked proposals to backload sales of emissions allowances was dropped.
The first Electricity Market Reform (EMR) panel of technical experts has been appointed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).