Feed In Tariff customers who were wrongly charged fees by two companies are to be refunded. Good Energy is to refund over £453,000 to customers whose Feed-In Tariff (FIT) it administers and pay them compensation of £200,000. The customers, who…

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“Ofgem’s failure to effectively regulate the energy supplier market has cost households an estimated £2.7 billion – £94 per household – and the cost will increase when the future of Bulb is settled, according to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).…

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Insulating the UK’s least energy efficient homes before 2030 could cut gas use by 384TWh for the following five years – three times the amount of gas (118TWh) that could be produced from newly approved North Sea fields over the…

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Energy company Equinor and technology company Hitachi Energy have signed a strategic collaboration agreement. It includes developing standardised base designs for transmission systems to connect offshore wind farms to the onshore grid, including high-voltage direct current (HVDC) versions. The two…

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GridBeyond has launched an energy trading and hedging service it claims can halve business energy costs. It says the new hedging service is part of a ‘whole of market’ offering to manage risk and optimise prices, alongside procurement and trading…

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Subsea cable suppler JDR has begun construction on a new factory near Blyth, Northumberland, which will be operational by 2024. The £130 million, 69,000m2 factory has been supported by the government as part of the BEIS Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment…

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A solar farm in Shropshire is now in community ownership with help from Triodos Bank UK. The 3.2MW solar farm in Sheriffhales was originally commissioned in 2016 by a commercial renewable energy company. In 2016 it was brought into part-community…

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Arenko has signed a second contract with Vattenfall. It will optimise a new 20MW/45.5MWh battery in Northumberland, co-located with a wind farm, which is expected to be energised later this year. Its first contract with Vattenfall, announced on 13 May,…

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The owner of the link connecting Humber Gateway offshore wind farm will not get credit for two periods when it was out of service because the company should have checked the settings on its equipment, according to Ofgem. So called…

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Energy supply for the Ukraine population is now a ‘battlefield’ in the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and we expect that to continue”, said Maksim Timchenko, chief executive of energy company DTeek, in an update. Although thermal generating capacity is still…

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