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Water companies are making steady progress in winding up their Cayman Islands subsidiaries as they try to improve transparency and rebuild trust with their customers. Katey Pigden reports.
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Delegates at the Future Networks Conference in Birmingham heard that an emphasis on whole-systems thinking could be the answer to congested electricity networks. Tom Grimwood was there.
Network operators have defended the RIIO framework from criticism over excessive profits, saying the price controls have driven a marked improvement in performance since their introduction in 2013.
In a report published today (24 May), the Assembly’s environment committee warns the recent growth
The government is not proposing to change the rules of the Contracts for Difference ahead of the next year’s round of the auction, a senior BEIS (business, energy and industrial strategy) civil servant has said.
Many parts of England will face “significant” water deficits by 2050 unless action is taken
Laura Sandys has called for the creation of a multi-utility regulator and network regime to improve collaboration across sectors, lower costs and simplify the industry for consumers.
The cumulative additional cost of decarbonising the UK’s heating system by 2050 could be as
"Utilities are under competitive pressures to explore opportunities to monetise their data in creative ways"
"The NIC report makes a really valuable contribution through their approach to the economics of drought resilience"
The UK is unlikely to need any new baseload gas generation to fill the gap left by the planned closure of coal plants, WWF and Sandbag have claimed in a new report.
The water sector’s war on wet wipes has reached new heights, as the government wades into the environmental debate. Utility Week reports.
The government has committed £20 million to a new competition to reduce the cost of mass producing low-carbon hydrogen.
Npower has announced an average price rise of 5.3 per cent. This is made up of an average rise of 4.4 per cent on gas and 6.2 per cent on electricity.
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has pledged to “eliminate all avoidable plastic waste” which includes single-use products like wet wipes over the next 25 years.
The House of Commons environment, food and rural affairs select committee has announced the launch of a wide-ranging inquiry into the regulation of water companies.
Three of the companies in the supply chain for the stalled Swansea Bay tidal lagoon power plant have gone bust while the government has been dithering over whether to back the project, its promoter has revealed.
TEN years after the passing of the Climate Change Act, Energy UK is launching a far-reaching project looking ahead to the next decade.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has called on the government to “step up” its support for the use of hydrogen to decarbonise the energy system across power, heat and transport.
