Gas suppliers are investigating their consumer meters after E.On discovered that around 600 of its residential and small business customers have been incorrectly charged for gas, due to metric meters being incorrectly registered as imperial meters or vice versa. This…

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Over 300,000 (333,653) people switched electricity supplier in July, which is a record high for July and a 22 per cent increase from July 2015. This brings the total number of electricity switches to over two and a half million…

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Ofgem gave notice today that a new competitive offshore transmission licence tender round will start on 10 October 2016. The bidding process – known as Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) Tender Round Five (TR5) – will decide who owns the transmission assets of the following projects: Dudgeon…

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There is little evidence that the development of a ‘large cluster’ for offshore wind staging and manufacturing activities would significantly reduce the marginal cost of energy from the UK’s offshore wind projects, compared with  supply chain development using existing port infrastructure. That’s one…

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Two unexploded devices, detected along the Rampion offshore cable route will be safely disposed of this week, E.On have confirmed. The company discovered the two devices, thought to date from WWII, in March during unexploded ordnance (UXO) surveys, which are undertaken as protocol…

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Dong’s power generation was down 3% year on year in the company’s first financial results since it floated on Nasdaq Copenhagen on 9 June. Lower energy from wind year-on-year contributed to a 3% downturn in the company’s power generation, the company said in…

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Feed In Tariffs (FITs) for anaerobic digestion (AD), standalone PV solar and wind installations between 100 and 1500kW have been so in demand that installations are now queued to 2017, with some wind generators having to wait until October 2017.…

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The pre-qualification window has opened today for three different Capacity Market auctions. Pre-qualification will run from today (1 August) to 26 August, and will be followed by the Pre-qualification Assessment Window, from 29 August to 23 September. The auctions in question are: 2016 Four…

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Citizens Advice is working on a new energy supplier comparison tool that will rank energy suppliers according to a set of individual metrics as well as an overall performance rating. The five proposed metrics covered by the tool are the number…

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The government has granted the development consent order (DCO) for Meaford Energy Centre, near Stone in Staffordshire. This energy centre will be a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power station with a nominal generating capacity of 299MW with electricity connection, gas…

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