Workforce, culture and performance

Affinity sets out second phase of solar ambition

Weekend press round-up: Energy suppliers urged not to force customers onto PPMs

This week's round-up of national news from the weekend includes energy suppliers being urged to stop "forcing" customers onto prepayment meters amid calls to name and shame those companies that compel users to move to these tariffs. Elsewhere the Bulb Octopus deal is set to pay a handsome return to the Treasury; EV battery production in the UK is called into question; and Severn Trent's boss Liv Garfield is tipped for the top job at Vodafone

Ones to watch in water innovation

Celtic Sea floating wind boom ‘within reach’

Bevan: Climate doomism is the new denial

Ofwat calls for freeze-thaw review

Gas plants fuel SSE profits outlook

Scottish Power ranked Which? worst supplier

Demanding change: Is DFS a game-changer or gimmick?

Sector needs a ‘grown-up conversation’ about PPMs

Defra ‘refusing to acknowledge’ EA strikers’ concerns

Extent of fuel poverty causing ‘unprecedented capacity challenges’

Failure to recycle energy bill support savings would be devasting

Southern digitises sewer network

Suppliers respond to PPM pressure

‘Major incident’ as 70 Hinkley workers involved in bus crash

Ofgem moving ‘way too fast’ on financial resilience

Moody’s gives negative credit outlook for water sector

UU rolls out AI sewer inspectors

BEIS and Ofgem aim to ‘kickstart’ smart charging market