Blog: Failed New Year’s Resolutions for 2015

Take a spin round my neck of the woods, or should I say the urban jungle that is north London and you’ll find the finest Turkish kebab in England if not outside of Turkey. There’s constant temptation to tuck into the juicy, charcoal-cooked ribs, lamb shish kebabs and freshly baked flat breads. It’s a dangerous […]

Blog: Fasten your seatbelts! Take a greener ride

It looks like something that’s been taken straight out of a Disney film! Two very inviting wide eyes, a cute black nose and a mysterious half smile. It was love at first sight, as they say, for me – Google’s driverless car! I’m sure we all have, at some point, wished we could be in […]

Guest Blog: Wayne Mitchell – Matching demand with supply for the construction industry

Matching demand with supply for the construction industry For many in business, 2014 is proving a positive year for growth, as the economic recovery gathers pace. The construction industry in particular is experiencing an increase in output, with the latest Construction Trade Survey reporting a rise in activity across all areas, including building contractors, specialist […]

Blog: Selling energy with pigs is oinking ridiculous

Disclaimer: peddling energy with cute or fuzzy mascots is my ultimate pet peeve. I’ve had my guns levelled at EDF Energy’s stupid creature Zingy for years – if I could bring it to an untimely demise by sticking the thing in a plug socket, I would. Sadly this darkest of endings is outside my grasp. […]

Blog: Energy needs a woman’s touch…

It’s like a game of cards. You play a round, someone wins. You shuffle the deck, play again. Then reshuffle. It’s what the British Government has been doing so far. Playing a couple of card games. We had a reshuffle in 2012 when John Hayes replaced Charles Hendry as Energy Minister. Fast forward a few […]

Guest Blog: Dave Cockshott – ESOS: Just another case of ‘same old, same old’?

Dave Cockshott is Director at Inenco Group. Another year, another new piece of energy legislation for businesses. In the past two decades I’ve worked in the energy retail business, I’ve witnessed the market transform beyond recognition and I can confidently say it has not all been good for businesses. The reason for my nostalgia is […]

Blog: A splash of cold water on the Ice Bucket Challenge

3, 2, 1… Splash! It’s the craze right now with videos of it flooding my Facebook news feed every day. David Beckham has done it, Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has and so have a lot of the A-listers in Hollywood. If you don’t know what I’m talking about (perhaps you’ve been living in a cave?), […]

Blog: How do you define an energy TPI?

If I was shipwrecked and only left with one book, it would be a dictionary. The Oxford English, to be precise. Hangover from my lit degree, yes – but why? For a start, I blimmin’ love new words. And it would be so frustrating to never know what that word floating in the back of […]

Guest Blog: Wayne Mitchell on EMR – opportunities as well as costs

Last week, I talked about how much the newly-finalised Electricity Market Reform (EMR) policies are likely to cost consumers. If you recall, we estimate between £11 and £17 per megawatt hour by 2020, which when you are consuming in the mega megawatt league, is not an insubstantial amount, especially on top of other existing policy […]

Blog: Are Brits unsuited to having a Big 1,000?

“We need a Big 60,000 of suppliers” is a phrase which often tripped off the tongue of Greg Barker, the former Energy and Climate Change Minister who left his post in last week’s reshuffle. But is it possible that Great Britain is simply unsuited to having more than a handful of suppliers? Unsuited that is, […]