Electricity tariff that gets cheaper when it’s windy
Octopus Energy has acquired its first two own-brand wind turbines, the move is accompanied by the launch of the world's first local time-of-use wind...
Record-breaking 2020 becomes greenest year for Britain’s electricity
2020 was the greenest year on record for Britain’s electricity system, with average carbon intensity – the measure of CO2 emissions per unit of...
Release of Risk360 in the UK
POWWR has announced the release of Risk360 in the UK market, raising the bar on risk and position management performance for energy suppliers. Risk360...
Approval of the modified access rules for the BritNed interconnector
BritNed Development Limited (BDL) submitted modified Access Rules for the BritNed interconnector to the Authority on 10 December 2020. The Access Rules set out...
Sale of gas assets for £193.3 million and trading update
Drax has announced that it has reached agreement for the sale of Drax Generation Enterprise Limited (“DGEL”), which holds four Combined Cycle Gas Turbine...
EDF Energy (Thermal Generation) agrees to pay £6 million for breaching wholesale energy market...
From September 2017 to March 2020, EDF Energy (Thermal Generation) Limited (EDF ETG) regularly sent misleading signals to the National Grid Electricity System Operator...
eEnergy Group to acquire Beond Group
eEnergy Group, an Energy Efficiency-as-a-Service (EEaaS) business, has conditionally agreed to acquire Beond Group, a renewable energy consulting and procurement business that helps organisations...
Ofgem appoints Scottish Power to take on customers of Yorkshire Energy
Ofgem has appointed Scottish Power to take on supplying Yorkshire Energy’s (also known as Daisy Energy) 74,000 domestic customers and a small number of...
Ofgem protects customers of failed supplier Yorkshire Energy
Yorkshire Energy Limited (also known as Daisy Energy) a gas and electricity supplier with around 74,000 domestic customers, and a small number of non-domestic...
New webinar: what The Energy White Paper means for your businesses
This year has seen sustainability take centre stage, with the government announcing a new ‘10-point plan’ for a green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Join EDF’s webinar: The UK Power Market
Like every year, as we enter winter, the commodity outlook is clouded by weather and supply uncertainty. In recent years, global factors are also...
Yü Group acquires gas supply book
Yü Group, supplier of gas, electricity and water to the UK businesses, has announced the acquisition of the business customer book of an undisclosed...
Shakespeare Martineau ensures more LNG is in the pipeline
The energy team at law firm, Shakespeare Martineau, has completed a project for National Grid Grain LNG (Grain LNG), which will see it enter...
H21: making the hydrogen switchover happen
For a large gas distribution operator like Northern Gas Networks (NGN), keeping its millions of customers going is the number one priority. Examining the...
Testing times for gas, as Covid crisis and carbon targets force changes
The Covid pandemic has thrown up unprecedented challenges for the gas sector, and that is the topic that Eddie Proffitt, technical director of the...
Business energy switches up 17% during lockdown with price trumping decarbonisation
Love Energy Savings reports a surge of +17% in business energy switches during the UK COVID-19 lockdown period, in comparison to the same period...
Are corporate PPAs the key to unlocking green energy?
Alongside battery storage that helps tackle the intermittency of solar and wind power generation, and more sophisticated networks that can deal with different levels...
Covid impact on demand puts pressure on electricity prices
What will happen to electricity prices in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic? And what can users do to prepare for the impacts? These...
“The time is now”
Scottish Power’s Danny Parr on the need to step up the energy transition. Among the changes brought about by the Covid-19 crisis, there is a...
CMA tells water companies ‘manage your energy bills’ as it rejects option to recoup...
A decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will force major energy buyers in the water sector to take a more active approach to...