electricity market

The announcement comes after an investigation found the power utility’s exclusive access to lignite-fired generation gave it an unfair advantage

A new report finds the collective gas market share by non-large suppliers has grown from 17.0% in October 2005 to 56.2% in October 2020

The gas and electricity regulator says the company has delayed publishing information which could have had a ‘significant effect’ on wholesale electricity prices

The venture will use a virtual power plant to pool around 600MW of power from electrolysis units in Germany and Britain

Tackling rising energy prices should be one of the next government’s main priorities. That’s according to a new report from a consumer group, which says political parties should use the forthcoming election to address a range of critical consumer issues. In a recent Which? survey, 51% of respondents said taking action on energy prices, which have gone up […]

More than 614,000 people swapped supplier in the UK in November, double those who switched in October 2013. It was also the highest number of people switching since 2010, suggesting the recent furore over rising energy bills and profits is sinking in with consumers. The figures from data company Electralink also show 125,000 of those switching were […]

Coal boss Kevin McCullough is joining the top line-up at Energy Live 2013 in November. The chief executive of UK Coal has been at the helm of the firm since January 2013 and is a mine of knowledge on the UK energy sector. He will be well aware of the pressures on the nation’s energy […]

The UK is on the cusp of a brave new energy world where energy users want to be much more in touch with generators – to the extent they want to become generators themselves. That’s according to independent energy firm SmartestEnergy which has shaken up the structure of its management and plans to grow its […]

Energy company npower wants businesses to share their thoughts on government changes to the electricity market (EMR) with a new survey it is launching today. Its new ‘EMR Pulse’ is a quick and simple online survey and once the results are in, the supplier will feed comments back to the Government. It says this will […]

Business confidence in the Government’s plans for infrastructure is “ebbing away” according to a new survey from the CBI and KPMG which found a majority see the infrastructure of our European neighbours is better. Although energy costs have a “particularly important” bearing on investment for more than 90% of companies in the manufacturing sector, according […]