Policy

Electricity engineering standards should ‘start off with customers’

System Operator ‘should be part of National Energy Agency’

Auto-switching: A cure for consumer inertia?

Kwarteng: Hydrogen can enter gas grid before 2030

Ofgem calls for full ESO separation

Gas networks release joint plan for hydrogen conversion

Regulation not legislation key to ending CSOs

New commitments for water companies, Ofwat and the Environment Agency to increase transparency and reduce the reliance on storm overflows have been made in response to Philip Dunne's Sewage (Inland Waters) Bill. Utility Week speaks to the chair of the Environmental Audit Committee.

Auto-switching ‘represents old school thinking’

The surprise twist in the Energy White Paper was its embrace of the idea of auto-switching. David Blackman looks at how this and other key planks of the paper landed with the sector, and why it came out of the blue.

Court upholds planning consent for new gas turbines at Drax

NIC calls for evidence on carbon capture technologies

Heat pumps to be ‘primary’ heating source for new homes

Kwarteng defends plans for decarbonisation of power sector

CBI: Regulation too focussed on short term

The government should widen the utility regulators’ toolkit beyond price controls, the CBI has told Rishi Sunak. In its submission to the chancellor of the exchequer ahead of the Budget on 3 March, the business body says the use of price controls “can lead to underinvestment and may not deliver price stability for consumers in the longer term”.

National Grid updates on TERRE implementation

Renewable developer sounds alarm over network charging reforms