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RWE Npower has sold two sites in Cumbria it had promoted for nuclear development in 2009, following a "strategic review".
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The Cabinet Office has agreed a deal with Air Products which will help reduce the government's electricity bill by £97 million over the next two decades.
The government is to encourage independent renewable generators to gain entry to the electricity market by tabling an amendment to the Energy Bill making it easier to sell power to suppliers via power purchase agreements.
What's gone wrong between utilities and customers? Wessex Water's Colin Skellett reckons it's the name utility for a start - consumers want service businesses, he says. Energy UK's Angela Knight thinks relations would be improved by greater transparency on bills. And the chief ombudsman Lewis Shand Smith says privatisation has not delivered on its promises.
The government has unveiled "generous" tax breaks which it hopes will "kick start" investment in shale gas.
Thames Water has said that the current heatwave has led to a 15 per cent rise in the demand for tap water across London and the Thames Valley.
National Grid has dropped the greenest scenario from its future energy modelling, saying it is no longer credible.
Northumbrian Water Ltd (NWL) has increased its turnover by almost £30m for the year ended March 31 2013, compared with the previous 12 months.
Severn Trent supplied customers with an extra 350 million litres of water as temperatures soared over the weekend.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change spent £8.3 million on consultancy from the "big four" last year, more than double the sum in any previous year. Energy minister Greg Barker revealed the increase in response to a written question from Labour MP Barry Sheermand.
The Treasury is set to announce a tax break of up to 30 per cent for the shale gas industry.
No stranger to tight deadlines, business and energy secretary Michael Fallon is racing to hammer out the details of the draft delivery plan for Electricity Market Reform before Parliament's summer recess begins on 18 July. He took a quick break from his packed schedule last week to reassure Utility Week's Megan Darby that plans for the capacity market are on track.
Energy efficiency measures for large firms could benefit the UK by £1.9 billion, according to government proposals made today.
Tidal turbines in the Pentland Firth could generate up to 1.9GW of power, according to research by leading academics.
UK Coal has entered administration in a deal that will save the viable parts of the business along with 2,000 jobs but will lead to the redundancies of 350 from the troubled Daw Mill colliery.
The odds of a hosepipe ban "anywhere in the UK" have been slashed by half by leading bookmaker Coral due to the continued spate of hot weather.
A scorching hot day to mirror a scorching hot Wimbledon men's final led to a suppression of 1,000MW during the nail-bitter between Great Britain's Andy Murray and Serbia's Novak Djokovic.
The Scottish Government has indicated that home energy programmes are set to save its householders more than £1 billion on their energy bills under its four home energy programmes initiative since 2009.
Cuadrilla is seeking to expand it shale exploration work with up to six new wells in Lancashire.
