The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) has launched a compliance scheme to help industry and  business develop a ‘smart’ energy startegy. The Flex Assure scheme (and its Code of Conduct), will help businesses to compare the different services offered by…

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Proposals by the Labour Party to take energy networks back into public ownership would include interconnectors and would take the assets back at cut price. According to the FT, shareholders be given compensation below market prices because of  ”‘asset stripping…

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Independent generators invested £58 million in 80 new renewable energy projects last year, adding 329MW to bring the total capacity of the sector above 14GW, according to Smartest Energy’s annual Energy Entrepeneurs Report. But investment has switched away from renewables…

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Sustainable energy organisations have called on HMRC to halt planned changes to the VAT regime that would raise the cost of installing more efficient and lower-carbon energy measures. VAT applied to energy efficiency measures such as insulation and low carbon…

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A cross-party group of 91 MPs have signed a letter to energy minister Claire Perry asking for more support for wave and tidal power. The letter, written by Conservative MP Richard Graham,  Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Marine Energy and Tidal Lagoons, encourages the government to…

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Online bank Monzo has added an energy switching service to its app – although the switching options are currently limited to Ovo Energy and Octopus Energy. Users can enter information about their home to get quotes, then choose a tariff and…

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Solarplicity has been issued with a provisional order by Ofgem to pay outstanding money owed to customers with domestic generation who are eligible for Feed-in Tariff (FIT) payments. Ofgem said it understands that Solarplicity failed to pay a number of FIT…

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Octopus Energy Investments has completed a £344 million refinancing of its UK onshore wind portfolio. The portfolio, which Octopus acquired on behalf of its investors in a series of transactions between 2015 to 2017, includes seven sites across England and…

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Siemens is to spin off its gas and power interests in a new company to be given “complete independence and entrepreneurial freedom”. The new company will comprise Siemens’ current oil and gas, conventional power generation, power transmission and related services businesses. It will…

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