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Ofgem issues final orders over unpaid RO and FIT bills of £15m

Ofgem issues final orders over unpaid RO and FIT bills of £15m

Three challenger brands have been issued with final orders after failing to make a total of £15 million in Renewables Obligation (RO) and Feed-in Tariff (FIT) payments. Several other suppliers have given Ofgem assurances that they will pay the amounts they owe by the late payment deadline.

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Utilita CEO apologises ‘unreservedly’ after overcharging customers

Utilita’s chief executive has apologised “unreservedly” to all customers who were overcharged by the supplier and outlined how the company has rectified the underlying problem.. The challenger brand, which serves 800,000 customers, agreed to pay £500,000 after it was found by Ofgem to have overcharged almost 40,000 prepayment customers.

5 years ago

Smarter, greener substations

5 years ago

Utilita agrees payout after overcharging 40,000 prepayment customers

Challenger brand Utilita has agreed to pay redress of £500,000 after it overcharged almost 40,000 prepayment customers. Utilita first self-reported to the regulator that between May 2019 and September 2019 it had mistakenly overcharged prepayment customers.

5 years ago

Northern Gas Networks: Transforming asset investment planning

Utility Week reviews the combination of asset management strategy overhaul and decision analytics which put Northern Gas Networks' RIIO2 business plan into a class of one.

5 years ago

Ofgem proposes to increase performance penalties for DCC

5 years ago

Appellant water companies say CMA did not go far enough

5 years ago

Ofwat: CMA’s redetermination undermines ability to regulate for customers

5 years ago

WICS: Regulation must be more flexible to meet climate goals

5 years ago

iSupply pays out after blocking almost 23,000 switches

iSupply Energy is to pay more than half a million pounds in redress after almost 23,000 of its customers were blocked from switching over an eight-year period. The company is in the process of being wound down after EDF Energy acquired its more than 190,000 customer accounts from the Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall in March this year.

5 years ago

Ofgem postpones state of the market report

Energy regulator Ofgem says it is postponing the publication of its annual State of the Market report for this year due to the pandemic. In an announcement, the regulator said it has had to reprioritise its work load due to Covid-19.

5 years ago

Ofwat: CMA’s rate of return would cost billpayers £2bn

5 years ago

Witcomb: No case for higher network returns

5 years ago

Brearley: Ofgem must evolve to adapt to changing sector

Ofgem must undergo organisational changes to adapt to the ever-evolving energy landscape, the regulator’s chief executive Jonathan Brearley has said. In his keynote address at Utility Week’s Build Back Better forum Brearley outlined key ways in which the regulator plans to support the scale of change over the next few years.

5 years ago

Kwarteng: I don’t see the problem on returns

Kwasi Kwarteng has rebutted suggestions that investors will be put off UK energy infrastructure by Ofgem’s drive to curb network returns. In his keynote address at Utility Week’s Build Back Better Forum the energy minister said he was confident Ofgem would reach a settlement with energy networks that incentivises backers.

5 years ago

Town-scale trials needed to end ‘total paralysis’ on heating

5 years ago

The Green Recovery – major new report from Utility Week

5 years ago

The role of CfD in an age of uncertainty

5 years ago

Ambitious water efficiency targets needed to meet climate change commitments

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Government extends price cap

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