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US Chamber of Commerce calls for FSO clarity

‘Serious concerns’ raised over Ovo’s complaints handling

Water UK: Misleading sewage claims help no one

Government and Ofgem must ‘throw their weight’ behind DFS

Weekend press: Health check of England’s waters faces six-year wait

Energy bills scheme pays out to one-sixth of eligible households

Only around one-sixth of eligible households obtained energy bills support through the scheme set up to help customers lacking a direct contract with a supplier, new figures show. The figures, obtained by Age UK through a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), shows 147,760 households received £400 payments through the Energy Bills Support Scheme- Alternative Fund (EBSS-AF) by the end of June, costing the Exchequer a total of £59.1 million.

System restoration services open to smaller generators

Government must not see price cap as answer to affordability

Probe launched into Yorkshire’s poor bathing water quality  

Renewables on bases could boost UK’s military resilience

Accelerating the roll out of low carbon generation on military bases would boost UK resilience in the event that the country came under attack, the House of Commons defence committee has said. The committee’s new report Defence and Climate Change says the Ministry of Defence (MoD) can do much more to measure and reduce its emissions without eroding military capability. It describes the MoD’s decarbonisation targets as “insufficiently demanding”, adding that they are among the least demanding in Whitehall for reducing emissions.

Unacceptable quality blamed for Southern Water outages

ITM posts heavy losses but increases electrolyser output

A record number of electrolysers have left green hydrogen pioneer ITM Power’s factory over the last six months despite losses soaring to £94.2 million for the full year, the company’s delayed annual results show. Sheffield-based ITM, which produces electrolysers that use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, has had a troubled 12 months that has seen the departure of long serving CEO Graham Cooley and the axing of a quarter of its headcount.

Grid queue reforms will take ‘five years’ to kick in, solar sector warns

Moves to shake up the grid connection queue could take five years or more to implement, solar companies have warned. Solar Energy UK says that while the majority of strategic objectives in the long-awaited government consultation on its draft energy policy Strategic Policy Statement (SPS) are a positive development, there is a lack of clarity on how they will be delivered.

Ofwat warns suppliers against overstating energy costs

Thames to replace sewage pipe after multiple bursts