Community energy company Mongoose has announced plans to start an energy supply business, planned to launch before the end of the year. The supply business will be run in partnership with locally-run community benefit energy companies across the UK. “We…
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Is there a ‘big data’ future for energy suppliers?
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Can energy companies take advantage of the opportunity that big data presents, or are they slow-acting incumbents that will be undercut?
E-serve spin-off planned for autumn
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Ofgem’s ‘E-serve’ delivery body will be separated from the regulator and its future set out as part of a new ‘delivery landscape’ by the time of the Autumn Statement. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) says in a…
Auto-switching for energy customers is an opportunity: we must get it right
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Ambitions on increasing customer switching run into one problem: it’s a tedious business, and one that can leave you uncertain, on switching sites, whether you really have got a better deal. New auto-switch services could change that. Last month Janet…
Auto-switching services for energy customers: can they help build customer trust?
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Ambitions on increasing customer switching run into one problem: it’s a tedious business, and one that can leave you uncertain, on switching sites, whether you really have got a better deal. New auto-switch services could change that. Last month Janet…
Air Products abandons plans for plasma-based energy from waste plants in Tees Valley
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Air Products has announced it will exit its energy from waste (EfW) business, leaving the future of two projects – with 100 technical and 1500 construction jobs – in doubt. The US-based company had planned to build two 49.9MW EfW…
Consultation launched on managing the ‘queue’ of distributed generation connections
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The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has launched a consultation on how electricity distribution network operators (DNOs) should manage the ‘queue’ of distributed generation customers who want to connect to the network. The consultation sets out principles on which DNOs could…
Jack of all trades: storage is being held back by its complex offering
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The story from new mechanisms like National Grid’s Demand Side Balancing Reserve and the Capacity Market are that they welcome bids from storage. But in practice, those mechanisms have largely incentivised traditional generation instead, some of it at small scale.
Fiddler’s Ferry gets stay of execution
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Three units at SSE’s Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired station will remain operable for another year and could be retained until 2017/18, SSE has announced. The stay of execution has come after one of the three remaining units won a one-year contract…
Power industry evolution: local energy v long distance transport
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed changes to the way transmission losses are charged among its recommendations to improve competition in the energy industry. The energy lost in transporting power from centralised generating plants to customers has been…