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Government's proposals for water competition are not convincing enough to be extended to Wales, according to the newly appointed water minister for Wales.
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The number of beaches in the UK classified as "excellent" for the quality of bathing water has fallen to its lowest level since 2000, according to new figures published by the European Environment Agency.
The Crown Estate is planning to lease further tidal and marine sites to encourage and accelerate technology development.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has cut the number of staff in its climate change adaptation team from 38 to six.
Npower has signed a deal with the communications giant BT to provide them with 100 per cent renewable power.
Almost half of potential homebuyers would be wary of purchasing a house with an outstanding Green Deal loan on it.
The water industry needs to develop better leaders, delegates heard at the Institute of Water's annual conference yesterday.
UK Power Networks is to supply heat to the Tate Modern from its Bankside electricity substation in an award-winning project, it announced today.
The number of people in fuel poverty in England showed a "modest" fall, figures released today by the government show.
Severn Trent has rejected a £5.3 billion preliminary approach from Canadian and Kuwaiti investors, saying it was undervalued.
The number of Green Deal assessments that have been completed doubled in April to 18,816.
What's in a name? Well, that depends on who you ask. In our exclusive interview with Mike O'Connor this week, the chief executive of the newly-christened Consumer Futures insists that the rebranding of the organisation formerly known as Consumer Focus and its accompanying restructure will increase its influence. It will also get added firepower through being folded into Citizens Advice, he says.
Anglian Water has rebranded its Scottish retail arm Osprey Water, it announced today.
The Woodland Trust has announced its entrance onto the energy retail market with two tariffs.
Water companies should publish data showing all business sites that are eligible to switch supplier ahead of the introduction of retail competition in 2017, delegates heard at the Major Energy Users' Council's conference on water competition yesterday.
Consumer Focus has today revealed its new name of Consumer Futures as the watchdog scales back its interests to only the regulated markets.
Plans to introduce more competition to the water and sewerage markets will move ahead in this parliament.
The first biomass unit at Drax power plant is gearing up to full steam, the generation company said in an interim management statement on Wednesday.
EDF Energy has shut down one of its nuclear reactors at Heysham 1 after smoke was seen coming from one of the turbines.
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