Energy Bill has extensive experience working for suppliers, TPIs and other energy companies. Still employed in the industry, he writes exclusively for ELN on the energy issues of the day. Having successfully dipped its toes in the water last year with a proposal for an energy price freeze, Labour donned its togs and jumped right […]

The energy regulator has taken a virtually unprecedented step by questioning the Labour party’s grasp of electricity market reforms. The independent body took the flak today for its plans to crack open the wholesale power market from both Labour’s Caroline Flint, the Shadow Energy Secretary, as well as the watchdog Which?. Labour has battered the […]

The country’s largest energy suppliers paid £3.8 billion too much for wholesale power than they should have done, according to the Labour party. It claims the ‘Big Six’ suppliers’ statements on spending over 2010, 2011 and 2012 show they splashed billions more compared with market prices in the same years. They used figures for the […]

Labour’s Ed Miliband today declared “nothing less” than an energy price freeze will do, hammering home the message he hopes will win his party the election in 2015. Mr Miliband poured scorn on the Government’s proposals for a tax rebate announced today which is meant to limit the amount energy bills rise next year. His comments […]

Sumit Bose reports from the first Energy UK annual conference in which Energy Secretary Ed Davey gets tough with the energy sector.

Energy regulator Ofgem “hasn’t done the job it needs to do” as a “guardian of the public interest” and that is why it needs to be abolished. That’s the view of Shadow Energy Secretary Caroline Flint, who claims Labour’s plans for a new independent regulator will do much more as the energy market needs a […]

An MP who counts his work on the Energy Bill Committee among his parliamentary achievements has topped a list of MPs claiming expenses on their energy bills, according to reports. Nadhim Zahawi’s website boasts about his work on legislation to improve the “provision of energy efficiency measures to homes and businesses”, yet he appears to […]

Energy Secretary Ed Davey dismissed claims the energy market was “rigged” today by announcing tougher measures to boost competition. He also dangled the prospect of  “criminal sanctions” for anyone found manipulating energy markets. Giving the annual energy statement to the House of Commons this morning the Lib Dem minister declared: “This Government has equipped the […]

A whistleblower has accused British Gas of boosting its profits by keeping £20 million it owed to former customers because of overestimated bills. British Gas allegedly used to wait six years before collecting unclaimed credit from customers it could not track down. But speaking to the Observer the whistleblower said British Gas had set up […]

Energy Secretary Ed Davey defended the Government’s mandatory schemes for power suppliers, suggesting there should be no need for any price rises due to them. Power provider npower yesterday joined the wave of gas and electricity price hikes after SSE and British Gas, all of which blamed Government schemes such as the Energy Company Obligation […]