Month: September 2016
A Power Ride for a great cause! The ELN boys do RIDE LONDON! Sumit and Geoff along with other pals from the energy sector cycle from the Olympic Stadium to Surrey and back to finish at the Mall – raising money for Parkinsons and our Reenergise Nepal campaign
Have a look at our Power Ride where we raced around a circuit all day raising money for good causes. In the end we managed to cycle 1,446km which is as far as London to Warsaw.
ELN’s chief reporter, Priyanka Shrestha, stood up at this years TELCA to talk about how the helping re-energise Nepal campaign began.
After the earthquakes in Nepal in 2015, ELN’s Chief Reporter Priyanka Shrestha came up with a campaign aimed at helping the people of her homeland. We decided what better than to try and help them access energy. So we started raising money to fund solar lamps, a power kit and torch to help those left […]
Shale gas imports to the UK are a positive thing and should boost long term confidence in “reasonably priced” gas assets. That’s the view of George Grant, Managing Director of Stag Energy, who said US shale gas has impacted the global gas market in recent years. While the markets had been gearing up to transport […]
ExxonMobil has been sued by an environmental advocacy group over an alleged climate cover-up. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) has filed a lawsuit against the oil company for its endangerment of communities along the Mystic River. It claims Exxon is contributing to past and present handling, storage, treatment, transportation and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes at […]
European Union states have today agreed on a fast-track, joint ratification of the Paris climate deal. The decision, which was reached at a meeting in Brussels, brings the agreement reached in the French capital last year very close to entering into force. It is expected to be formally ratified next week after it is approved […]
A calculator which allows customers under district heating schemes to compare the cost of their heating against a conventional system has been launched. Heat Trust, led by industry which sets customer service standards, has created the tool which aims to improve transparency in the sector by increasing public access to information on heating and hot […]
Ofgem has launched an investigation into a gas and electricity supplier based in Birmingham. E (Gas and Electricity) is a medium-sized supplier that supplies electricity and gas to customers, predominately those on pre-payment meters. The regulator will examine E’s marketing, sales and switching practices in order to know if it breached conditions which require suppliers […]
The Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant will cost UK consumers as much as £21 billion over the lifetime of the project. EDF has negotiated a strike price of £92.50/MWh for the electricity it generates for 35 years with the UK Government under its Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. The final agreement was signed […]