Sustainability First’s New Energy and Water Public Interest Network (‘New-Pin’) is seeking to ensure long-term decisions have the public interest at their heart. Associate Sharon Darcy explains why the Network was set up Energy and water service providers and regulators…
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Centrica to acquire Neas Energy
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Centrica is to acquire Neas Energy for £170 million. Neas provides customers in six countries in Europe with a route to market and short-term trading optimisation services. The customers together have 2,500 windfarms, solar plants and combined heat and power…
Isle of Wight tidal scheme gets go-ahead
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Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) has received the go-ahead from the Marine Management Organisation for a tidal energy generation project off the Isle of Wight. The onshore part of the 30MW project was approved by the local planning authority last…
Community generator Mongoose plans to become an energy supplier
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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…
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…