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Lewis: ‘Free bet’ on retail market has to end

The chief executive of Eon UK has urged Ofgem to take decisive action to ensure customers do not continue to pick up the tab for supplier failures. Michael Lewis was responding to the recent announcement that £120 million of unmet Renewables Obligation (RO) payments would be mutualised across the sector. Lewis told Utility Week it was unacceptable that suppliers were still allowed to “gamble with customers’ money” and criticised Ofgem’s U-turn on ring-fencing credit balances.

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Government moves to close CfD loophole

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Support scheme delay leaves businesses in Xmas ‘limbo’

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One third of old-style PPM discount vouchers still unredeemed

Concern has been raised that customers on pre-payment meters (PPM) are not redeeming energy bills discount vouchers. A group of charities has urged suppliers to publish monthly voucher redemption rates for traditional PPM customers and called for an urgent investigation into why redemption rates have been low so far.

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Ignorance breeding discontent towards water firms, poll shows

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New lease of life for onshore wind

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Resilience: The bogeyman

Urgently needed interventions for long term energy resilience are being hobbled in a mire of market disincentives for investment and strategic ambiguity, according to energy network leaders.

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ESO reports 800MWh demand reduction from winter pilots

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Wessex separates sewage system on Dorset coastline

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National Grid’s ‘eye in the sky’ to boost network resilience

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PR24 blueprint demands ‘transformation’ from sector

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ESO stands down backup coal units

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Low-hanging fruit on energy efficiency largely gone

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The time for talk on vulnerability is over

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Octopus customers receive £1m in flexibility payments

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Leakage is a global crisis but the UK can be world leader

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Cold Weather Payments have ‘lagged behind inflation’

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Coffey backtracks on solar curbs

The environment secretary has backtracked on moves by Liz Truss' government to review farmland which can be used for solar generation. Therese Coffey said the transfer of agricultural land for energy production was “very attractive” in the light of targets to reach 70GW of solar capacity. The chief executive of Solar Energy UK described Coffey's comments as “a turning point for the entire renewables sector".

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Government moves to ease onshore wind planning ban

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Offshore wind developers facing 12-year connections wait

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