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Helm: Breaking up Thames would be a good start

Economist Dieter Helm has proposed dividing beleaguered Thames into two public limited companies with simplified ownership to improve management and prevent financial engineering. The sector's long-term critic also took Ofwat to task for not taking steps to strip poorly-performing companies of their licences and proposed reverting to the single-company structures of the original privatised companies.

1 year ago

Ministers increase investment in Sizewell C

1 year ago

‘Sheer bloody mindedness’ to completely exorcise gas generation

1 year ago

Fuel poor should be placed on October 2020 tariff rate

1 year ago

DFS must not punish those unable to take part

2 years ago

Pressure mounts on government to scrap price cap

2 years ago

Price cap falls below £2,000

2 years ago

Radical electricity market reforms ‘must be taken off the table’

2 years ago

Warm Home Discount scheme ‘long way short’ of social tariff

2 years ago

England-Scotland electricity ‘superhighway’ gets go-ahead

2 years ago

Energy price cap is here to stay

2 years ago

Ofgem fines Morgan Stanley £5.4m for traders’ WhatsApp messages

2 years ago

Oil and gas levies should go into net zero fund

2 years ago

UKPN backs wider use of vouchers for disabled customers

2 years ago

Concerns raised about supplier insultation scheme targets

2 years ago

US Chamber of Commerce calls for FSO clarity

2 years ago

Government and Ofgem must ‘throw their weight’ behind DFS

2 years ago

Weekend press: Health check of England’s waters faces six-year wait

2 years ago

The importance of being flexible

Over the last five years, Piclo has staked out a leading position as the main market for the procurement of flexibility by DNOs. However, the company’s initial aim was to create markets for peer-to-peer energy trading by consumers. Utility Week speaks to its chief executive and co-founder James Johnston about its early pivot towards network tenders, its ongoing evolution alongside these markets, and the prospects for a return to peer-to-peer trading.

2 years ago

Government must not see price cap as answer to affordability

2 years ago