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Want to start up a company selling electricity to the business market? It's easy, Hudson Energy UK's Steve Fitzsimons tells Mathew Beech
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Large energy companies should be made to say how much electricity they buy from themselves, according to MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Committee.
Two UK tidal power projects have been named among the 23 European renewables schemes to win a share of £1 billion (€1.2 billion) from the NER300 funding programme.
Government will cut solar subsidies by less than planned and delay a decision on a biomass subsidy cut, it announced today.
The glory days are over for shareholders in UK listed water companies with returns dropping to around 12 per cent from highs of 20 per cent in the mid- 2000s, according to consultancy PwC.
Governments must share some of the risk of carbon dioxide leaking from carbon capture and
by Trevor Loveday Price comparison websites are not trusted by the public, the Office of
Recent allegations of price rigging by wholesale gas traders are exposing gaps in legislation, according
Ofgem chief Alistair Buchanan once claimed in a radio interview that he would go after the energy suppliers wearing his "regulatory hobnailed boots" if they didn't play fair with the consumers. His interviewer likened his bravado to that of the "cowardly lion". It was all very embarrassing and entirely misleading, because Buchanan had no hobnailed boots - neither metaphorical nor real.
All eyes have been on the wholesale gas market since price-fixing claims surfaced earlier this month. But what exactly will be investigated - and by whom? Joanne Hall writes
Good Energy chief executive Juliet Davenport tells Janet Wood what she is lobbying government to include in imminent Electricity Market Reform.
Energy supplier interest in investing in upstream gas assets is escalating - especially at Centrica - on the back of continuing high gas prices and security of supply concerns. Nigel Hawkins writes
Plans to set minimum distances between wind turbines and residential properties because of noise are flawed and should be silenced, write William Densham and Kate Poole
Exclusive Utility Week/Accent research finds smaller SMEs will stick with the incumbent but larger SMEs can't wait to split. By Rob Sheldon
Proponents of solar generation say it could play a bigger role in Europe's energy mix, but they fear it is low on the priority list of policymakers and regulators. Vic Wyman reports
by Trevor Loveday UK plans for a system to reward electricity generation capacity for being
by Mathew Beech The UK could slash 11 per cent off energy demand in 2020
The European Commission is poised to reject funding applications from the UK and other European
by Trevor Loveday As evidence mounted this week of price-rigging in gas trades, questions were
