British Gas grants up to £2,000 energy support

British Gas is injecting £20 million into the British Gas Energy Trust, offering up to £2,000 in grants to support families grappling with rising energy bills

Brits brace for £73 spike in energy bills

Analysts anticipate a £73 increase in household energy bills in January, bringing them close to £1,996, mainly due to the escalation of wholesale energy prices

Ofgem reviews wholesale energy allowances in price cap

The energy regulator considers returning money to customers over retailers’ profit from power price fluctuations

A softening in near term gas and power prices, but winter still holds up

In this week’s Resonance energy market podcast episode, Jeremy Nicholson talks to Alfa’s Daniel Veasey as prices soften ahead of the summer

Lithuania first EU country to cut Russian gas completely

The nation will now rely on its own LNG production, calling on the rest of Europe to do the same

Energy bills ‘to rise at least 14 times faster than wages this year’

A union body has said a “toxic combination” of soaring bills and weak pay growth will push many households to the brink

UK energy businesses ‘most concerned about Brexit’

The biggest concern for Britain’s energy businesses in the next year is leaving the EU. According to new data from npower Business Solutions, 28% of corporate decision makers said Brexit is their largest concern, with 53% citing unexpected costs to their business as the most common reason for this, closely followed by an inability to forward […]

Editorial – Price cuts are pointless PR stunts

There I’ve said it. What’s the point of price cuts? Just as August is silly season, January is normally price cut/price rise time for the Big Six and anyone else. Today the last of them announced cuts and as ever they are all roughly the same (around 5% this year) and as ever they don’t […]

Guest Blog: Mervyn Bowden – What does energy security mean to us today?

May sound a simple and straightforward question but with news every day now of the crisis in the Middle East with the threat of interventions in Syria, perhaps it’s time to look at the way we manage our energy in a new and re-visited global context. The impact of situations such as Syria, which threaten […]