Tackling the Trilemma

New net zero index shows lack of confidence in climate targets

Sunak’s COP-out conundrum

No room for complacency despite falling gas prices

Charities’ concern as £25m in energy support yet to be redeemed

December energy bill strike is ‘absolutely concrete’

New BEIS powers risk undermining Ofgem’s independence

Shapps appointed BEIS secretary; Coffey returns to Defra

Yorkshire gives debtors breathing space

Energy crisis sees reversal of long-term decline in PPMs

Rising interest rates leave debt-laden utilities exposed

Industry CEOs: Energy Prices Bill puts investment in jeopardy

Cox: Water sector has ‘lost public legitimacy’

Party pledges spark utility fears

Following the party conferences and the recent political and economic turmoil, Utility Week policy correspondent David Blacks asks whether utilities have more to fear from the policies of the Conservatives or Labour.

Defra ‘playing to the gallery’ on £250m pollution fines

The newly appointed environment secretary Ranil Jayawardena has promised the Environment Agency the much bigger stick its chief executive said was necessary to tackle pollution incidents by water companies. Utility Week spoke to an environmental regulation lawyer and sector executives about what the threat of £250 million fines could mean for the water industry and the likelihood of such penalties ever being enforced.

Early end to price freeze leaves ‘huge uncertainty’