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The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee will hear oral evidence next Wednesday as part of an inquiry into water quality.
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The cost of shale gas extraction in Europe is likely to be two to three times that of the US, according to an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance published yesterday.
The European Commission is taking the UK to court over its reduced VAT rate on energy-saving products, it announced today.
The European wind industry has been urged to address a severe skills shortage, after research showed a lack of qualified workers for the industry could reach 18,000 a year by 2030.
SSE will give each customer £20 off their bill if it fails to meet new customer service commitments, it promised today.
Tenants in private rented housing are keen to install energy efficiency upgrades available under the Green Deal, according to a survey by the Energy Saving Trust (EST).
The Green Deal, the government's flagship energy efficiency scheme, has been launched today.
Away from the dazzle of the lights and the cameras, UKPN staff were working to make the Olympics a success. Kathy Oxtoby talks to four members of team UKPN, the company named Utility of the Year 2012 at Utility Week's Industry Achievement Awards
SSE chief executive Ian Marchant is to step down this summer after a decade at the helm. He will be succeeded by deputy Alistair Phillips-Davies on 1 July.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has awarded 132 local energy schemes a share of £46 million to help reduce fuel poverty, boost energy efficiency, and encourage collective switching.
Government support for the Thames Tideway Tunnel will be put to the test after a west London council gave planning consent to a housing development on one of its key construction sites.
Seven British entrepreneurs have been awarded a share of £292,000 from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) to spur on innovation in the bioenergy sector.
The UK has pledged up to £10 million to a scheme to develop innovative bioenergy projects, in partnership with seven other European countries.
Scottish Water is offering customers the chance to win shopping vouchers worth £100 by participating in a consultation on the future of its water and wastewater services.
The chief executive of National Energy Action (NEA), Jenny Saunders, has been awarded an OBE for her services to the fuel poor in the Queen's New Years honours list.
Last year was the second wettest on record in the UK, according to provisional statistics released by the Met Office today. In 2012 1330.7 mm of rain fell, 6.6 mm short of the record set in 2000.
Given the heavy trailing of the Energy Bill, only the most hard-bitten of cynics would accuse Decc of deliberately timing its final publication to coincide with the Leveson report and the mass distraction of the media. Nevertheless, it was convenient. If nothing else, it meant that barely any news outlets picked up on David Cameron's highly unusual intervention in the workings of Decc. It emerged on Thursday, somewhere between the Energy Bill and Leveson, that the prime minister had blocked the appointment of David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change, who had been recommended (apparently unanimously) by the appointment panel for the top mandarin job at Decc.
The chief executive of Eon-UK is urging government to provide a definitive framework to provide a sustainable future for existing power stations. The call came as the energy company ceased commercial generation at its Kingsnorth coal-fired power station cited in Kent yesterday.
A look at how the electricity operator selected circuits for a wide-scale post fault demand
