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Smart export guarantee expected by the end of 2019

The replacement for the feed-in tariff scheme, which closed to new applicants in March, is expected to come into effect by the end of 2019, the government has announced.

6 years ago

BEIS committee chair to present bill for net-zero goal

Rachel Reeves will increase the pressure on the government to move rapidly to adopt the 2050 net-zero carbon emissions goal by presenting a bill to enshrine the target in legislation.

6 years ago

CMA provisionally approves PPM cap methodology change

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has made a provisional decision to adopt Ofgem’s default tariff cap methodology (DTC) in calculating the prepayment meter cap.

6 years ago

Voices: Heading off nationalisation

In the past month we’ve seen Labour’s proposals for nationalisation of the energy networks and

6 years ago

How Brexit, May’s exit and energy policy could affect utilities

The turmoil in Westminster will be a key talking point at the 2019 Utility Week Energy Summit, including how future policy is likely to affect investment in utilities. Nigel Hawkins reports

6 years ago

Net-zero goal requires ‘bold policy steps’ on renewables

6 years ago

‘Let’s take action in every area that we can think of,’ says climate change expert

With climate change dominating the agenda at Utility Week’s Energy Summit on 13 June, David Joffe, one of the authors of the CCC's net zero report, explains the key challenges of decarbonisation, as Denise Chevin reports

6 years ago

Meeting net-zero target will cost more than £1tn, warns chancellor

6 years ago

‘It’s time for the world to ratchet up its ambition on the Paris Agreement’

With utilities at the heart of the drive to decarbonise and global warming now an emergency issue, Mike Thompson of the Committee on Climate Change tells Suzanne Heneghan why 2050 must be the net-zero target

6 years ago

Eon’s CEO: why I’m calling for energy efficiency boost to tackle climate change

There can be no argument, climate change is the defining issue of our era, certainly

6 years ago

Editor’s view: What next for the price cap?

It looks like a chance may have finally come for those energy retail chiefs itching to vent their spleen about the first six months of the price cap.

6 years ago

ASA raps Eon over ‘misleading’ advertisement

Eon has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after a regional press advert claimed the company had been running for 70 years.

6 years ago

Government defies CCC carbon budget surplus advice

The cabinet has defied its own climate change adviser by carrying forward emission reductions, which have already taken place, into its future carbon budgets.

6 years ago

Trump state visit to produce ‘970 years-worth of CO2’

Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK will produce as much CO2 as an average British home does in almost a millennium, research commissioned by Pure Planet claims.

6 years ago

Renewables to gain access to capacity market

6 years ago

Government extends deadline for RHI applications

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Igloo Energy announces third price cut of 2019

6 years ago

Industry voices react to customer vulnerability report

Industry voices have reacted mainly positively to recommendations made in the independent report by the Commission for Customers in Vulnerable Circumstances which called for “urgent action” to be taken in the energy sector.

6 years ago

Private sector-led policy approach ‘bad for renewables’

The number of jobs in renewable electricity, including bioenergy, in the UK fell by around 30 per cent since between 2014 and 2017, according to a paper published by the Prospect union.

6 years ago

Businesses urge government to adopt net-zero target

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