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Energy security concerns fuel business appetite for hydrogen

Mounting concerns about energy security are leading business leaders to back hydrogen as part of their energy improvement strategies. Businesses now view energy security and resilience as the second biggest threat to their organisations, according to Centrica’s survey on businesses decarbonisation plans.

Minimum summer demand forecast to drop to 15.6GW

Government urged to review planning rules for water projects

REGOs have ‘outlived original purpose’

NIC calls for new unit to oversee planning overhaul

A new top-level, Whitehall taskforce should be established to oversee the infrastructure planning regime, a government-commissioned review has urged. The National Infrastructure Commission also calls for environmental impact assessments to be overhauled and for greater data sharing between similar projects.

Energy suppliers should absorb bad debt, consumers say

Britons “instinctively oppose” the force-fitting of prepayment meters (PPMs) as a debt recovery measure, Ofgem’s review into the practice concludes. Instead, British energy consumers believe that suppliers should absorb debt within their perceived profits. The consumer research was released alongside a new code of practice which tightens the rules on forced PPM installations.

Lords defy government over Ofgem net zero duty

The House of Lords has defied the government and backed calls for Ofgem to be given a statutory obligation to meet the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target. By 208 votes to 182, peers backed a Labour-tabled amendment to the government’s Energy Security Bill, which would incorporate within the energy regulator’s general duties a "specific requirement to have regard to meeting the UK’s net zero emissions target".

Firms face ‘severe’ fines for missing smart meter targets

PPM code ‘necessary’ but bad debt fears mount

Ovo to end using REGOs

Water companies must promote smart meter benefits to businesses

DCC network ‘clearly not up to scratch’

National Grid: We’re not averse to competition

Public offered stake in Britain’s first shared solar park

Households across Britain will be able to buy into the country’s first shared solar park from tomorrow (18 April), it has been announced. It comes after Ripple Energy completed a deal with Derril Water Solar Park developer RES to provide an alternative ownership model.  

Overhaul of CfD auctions tabled