Micro businesses are at greater risk of having their energy supply disconnected than the average household, and of exploitation by unscrupulous energy brokers, due to a lack of protections in the microbusiness market, according to a new report from Citizens…

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Ofgem expects “between one and four” energy suppliers to fail per year in future, despite its stricter entry rules, it emerged, as the regulator set out plans to tighten oversight of existing companies and reduce the costs shared by the…

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Highview Power has announced plans to construct a commercial cryogenic (liquid air) energy storage plant at a decommissioned thermal power station in North of England. The 50MW/250MWh project is said to be the first of a portfolio of projects in the UK and is…

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Moixa, which manufactures smart solar batteries and GridShare software, has partnered with Irish energy supplier Energia to demonstrate how smart home batteries, rooftop solar and electric vehicles can deliver valuable flexibility to the grid. The  partnership will create a 120kWh virtual power plant…

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A 9MW battery at the Port of Tilbury  project will be managed using the Origami platform to generate value from Triad revenues, a fast frequency response (FFR) contract and a capacity market contract. The project, using NEC batteries, is 100%…

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The regulator has expanded its investigation into supplier Utility Warehouse over customer service failings. Ofgem first opened an investigation in June last year (also the year when the company was awarded‘Utilities Provider of the Year’ at the 2018 Which? annual awards). It…

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Ofgem has appointed Total Gas and Power to supply  Rutherford Energy Supply’s 280 business customers and customers were switched on 19 October. The company went out of business earlier last week. Total Gas and Power has promised to honour any money…

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Ovo has taken a minority stake in Renewable Exchange,  an online digital marketplace and insight platform for power purchase agreements (PPAs). Founded in 2016, Bristol-based Renewable Exchange connects sellers and buyers, serving 717 independent generators in the UK representing 1GW of…

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Innovate UK has invited small innovative data companies to help solve the energy industry’s fundamental problem of exchanging digital energy information between each other and externally. The competition responds to a challenge set by the Energy Data Task Force to…

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Industry has welcomed proposals to ‘carve out’ storage from the Nationally Signiificant Infrastructure planning regime and allow projects (except pumped storage) to be consented by local authorities. The carve-out applies offshore as well as onshore, and gives planning responsibility to…

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