Is there a substantial local authority that is not considering setting up its own energy company? At the Parliamentary Renewables and Sustainable Energy Group (Praseg) meeting, most local authorities attending had it on their agenda.
The market is entering a tight winter period with little indication of the likely effect of a modification designed to sharpen price signals at times of scarcity and for parties ‘out of balance’.
The new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Ofgem are expected jointly to publish a ‘call for evidence’ imminently on the next stage in moving to a smart system.
The industry has less than three years to make some fundamental decisions about the likely shape of a future flexible and distributed industry.
MPs have written to Greg Clark, the new secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, to urge him not to go ahead with plans to make it easier for switching websites to hide some deals from users.
Ecotricity is set to begin charging customers using its ‘Electric Highway’ car charging network.
A rapid charge of 30 minutes will cost £6 for users who are not Ecotricity domestic energy customers.
Changes in renewable energy policy have created uncertainty that could threaten the industry’s prospects for further growth, the Scottish Affairs Committee reported.
The target date for licensing the design for the Moorside new nuclear plant has been delayed a second time, to March 2017, and the schedule “remains challenging”, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said in a regular licensing update.
The target date for licensing the design for the Moorside new nuclear plant has been delayed a second time, to March 2017, and the schedule “remains challenging”, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said in a regular licensing update.
Nearly 10GW of business-led demand-side response (DSR) could be released in the UK if regulation changed to make it easier for flexible business energy users to sell their demand reduction, a report from the Association for Decentralised Energy (A