Policy

Water retailer Aquaflow Utilities ‘likely’ to enter liquidation

Aquaflow Utilities is expected to become the first casualty of the non-domestic water retail market as it has informed Ofwat it has failed to secure funding for the next financial year and is likely to enter liquidation.

Renewable UK launches floating offshore wind group

Renewable UK has announced it has launched a new industry group setting out the floating offshore wind industry’s strategy for large-scale deployment of floating wind farms in the UK.

MPs to quiz Committee on Climate Change chair

New group formed to advise ministers on carbon capture

Orsted calls for North Sea grid to support offshore wind boom

NAO accuses regulators of being ‘detached’

Perry ‘can’t set a date’ for big decisions on heat

Environment minister defends EA’s water demand warning

An environment minister has defended the chief executive of the Environment Agency over accusations that he has hyped up the threat that England could run out of supplies.

Doubts raised over viability of ‘subsidy-free’ renewables

Political Agenda: “The Treasury has accepted heat must be decarbonised”

But while Philip Hammond’s time in the political sun was cut short last week, he

Editor’s letter: The heated debate about gas

Indeed it was dismissed by some industry observers as “window dressing” and “more unwelcome uncertainty”

Ofgem boss ‘nervous’ about decarbonisation of heat

Gove supports EA’s cut on Southern pumping from River Test

Michael Gove has backed moves by the Environment Agency to force Southern Water to cut the volume of water that it abstracts from the River Test by 40 per cent.

Ofgem rejects SSEN’s plan to ‘future-proof’ interconnector

Water UK urges against ‘political short-termism’

Trade association chief executive Michael Roberts questions the claim of overwhelming public support for nationalisation.