‘Number seeking help with energy bills jumps by 112%’

More than 32,400 people required help with energy debts during the first four months of 2023

Russia’s Gazprom cuts off gas supply to Denmark’s Ørsted

The Danish company said Gazprom Export has halted the supply of gas after the Russian firm demanded payment in roubles, despite being under no obligation to do so under the contract

Bristol Water workers on strike due to ‘pay freeze’

The company has offered a 1.5% pay rise

Energy supplier SSE Airtricity to pay £450k over compliance failures

The Utility Regulator found the company breached 26 licence conditions, which included handling customer complaints and bills

United Utilities pays £500k after polluting river and killing fish

The leak originated from the Riverton Water Treatment Works

SSE pays out £705k after overstating Feed-in Tariff costs

The Big Six supplier received £4.07m more in payments from the annual levelisation fund than what it was entitled to

Reduced deforestation in Indonesia triggers carbon payment from Norway

It will be the first payment for reducing around 4.8m tons of carbon emissions under a climate initiative that started in 2010

Fewer than 20,000 non-domestic RHI installations in five years

The government’s much lauded Renewable Heat Incentive scheme (RHI) has been adopted by fewer than 20,000 businesses. The RHI financially rewards both domestic and non-domestic consumers for using renewable energy to heat their homes by paying them a regular tariff. The payments aim to offset the cost of installing and running a renewable heating system. […]

13,000 homes still without power

Around 13,000 households across England and Wales have no access to electricity as a result of strong winds and flooding. Some have been without power since Monday while others since last night due to severe weather. Engineers are however working hard to restore electricity, with almost 25,000 homes reconnected overnight, the Energy Networks Association (ENA) […]

npower apologises and pays £1m after complaints rocket

npower has issued an apology and agreed to pay £1 million to schemes helping vulnerable ‘fuel poor’ customers in response to what a senior partner at Ofgem described as “a serious deterioration in service levels over the last year”. It also pledged that customers would not be left out of pocket by problems with its […]