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Mayor launches London Power supplier
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London Power, a partnership between Octopus Energy and the Mayor of London, launched this week. The company offers two tariffs, My London fixed yearly plan and My London top-up plan. The Mayor will become one of the first customers of the company…
Co-Op offers tariff sourced from community renewables projects
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Co-op Energy has today launched a Community Power Tariff, which offers green energy sourced from 90 local renewable energy generation projects across the UK. The Community Power tariff offered by Co-op Energy will be delivered by Co-op Community Energy, a joint venture…
Cost pressure in the offshore wind sector ‘could drive up disputes’
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Disputes could be set to grow in offshore wind projects, say Charlie Lightfoot (partner) and Rachael Cresswell (associate) in Jenner & Block’s International Arbitration Practice. In an article in the January issue of New Power Report the authors say that growing…
Octopus offers home charging EV bundle
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Octopus Electric Vehicles and EO Charging have combined to launch an all-in-one EV home charging bundle combining EO’s Mini Smart Home charger in the world and Octopus’s Go energy tariff. EO claims that the charger – smaller than an A5 piece of paper – is…
Gas network Cadent installs first solar PV
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Cadent, Britain’s largest gas distribution network, has installed its first solar array, at an existing Cadent site in Brisley, North Norfolk. The solar farm’s 388 panels have a peak generation capacity of 130kW and are expected to generate 120MWh a year – enough…
Ofgem tells nine suppliers: join smart meter hub or lose licence
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Ofgem wants to force nine energy suppliers to become Data Communications Company (DCC) users. It is consulting on issuingf them with final orders to become users by the end of March – if not, they will be stopped from taking on new…
Bristol Energy to offer only green tariffs to new customers
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Bristol Energy has launched three new green products – BE Simply Green, BE Super Green and Big Issue Super Green – and will make them the only tariffs available to new customers. The BE Super Green and Big Issue Super Green…
Gnergy warned licence may be revoked over RO debt as Ofgem issues ‘notice of failure’
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Ofgem has issued Gnergy with a notice of failure after the supplier failed to comply with a final order over £673,876.62 of unpaid Renewables Obligation payments and warned it may revoke the supplier’s licence. The final order was issued on 29…
Eaton and Green Motion combine to extend EV charging
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Power management company Eaton has joined with charging station supplier Green Motion to install EV chargers alongside storage in commercial buildings, residential housing and shopping malls. Connected to the grid or renewable energy sources such as solar panels, the combined…