Paul Taylor, chief executive of FCC Environment: “While it is encouraging to see the Government pledge its ongoing support for UK infrastructure projects, we feel that a major opportunity has been missed to set out plans to maximise the resource productivity…
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BEIS select committee “deeply worried” by carbon budget policy delivery
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The Business Innovation and Skills Committee has expressed concern about the gap between current energy policy delivery and the government’s ambition to meet future carbon budgets. In it’s first report on the government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper, the group of MPs…
Engie strengthens energy services offering with acquisition of Keepmoat regeneration business
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French multinational Engie has signed a £330m deal to buy the regeneration business of Keepmoat from TDR and Sun Capital. Keepmoat regeneration specialises in the design, refurbishment and upgrade of buildings and places, including zero carbon new homes, retrofitting high-rise accomodation and on-site…
Take Brexit opportunity to rewrite energy from waste rulebook, says Policy Exchange
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Leaving the EU will give the government the full control of environmental policy for the first time in decades and the UK response should include a new waste and resource policy “which better suits the UK context”, according to a new…
Energy switchers hit six-year high amid spring price hikes
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Some 7.7 million gas or electricity switches took place in 2016, according to new data from Ofgem. This is 1.7 million more switches than the previous year, a rise of 28%. This means switching rates last year reached their highest…
Offshore Wind Accelerator launches £2.4m project to cut cost of deep water foundations
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The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator has launched a new £2.4m project aiming to cut deep sea offshore wind costs by improving foundation design. The three-year project, called Improved Fatigue Life of Welded Jacket Connections (JaCo), aims to cut the cost of offshore…
Energy suppliers offer unlimited use tariff and loyalty scheme to tempt customers
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Green Star Energy has launched a new ‘unlimited tariff’, as British Gas announced a new £100m customer reward programme. The new Green Star Unlimited 12M tariff, available only through comparison site comparethemarket.com until 5 March 2017, gives customers unlimited energy use…
Ofgem seeks partner to administer voluntary redress funds
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Ofgem has today published a contract notice for the procurement of an independent organisation to manage and allocate voluntary redress funds, which are paid to charitable bodies by energy companies in lieu of a penalty following wrong-doing or a failure…
Centrica plans to invest £100m in innovative tech start ups
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Centrica has announced a new venture, Centrica Innovations, that will identify, incubate and accelerate new technologies and innovations. The new business unit will include a venture fund of up to £100 million to invest in start-ups, in exchange for access to technology and entrepreneurial capability and resources.…
Ofgem warns Oftos it may get stricter on 3rd party outages
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This is an extract from an article in the February 2017 issue of New Power. Regulator Ofgem has warned it may change the way it accounts for the offshore transmission cable availability during outages caused by ‘exceptional events’ like cable strikes…