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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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In the January issue of New Power Report, New Power’s editor, Janet Wood, spoke with Regina Finn, the new chair of the Low Carbon Contracts Company, about the many changes facing the power industry. Finn has been regulator and participant in…

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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…

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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…

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Ofgem is investigating whether Utilita Energy broke rules around charging customers above the permitted level of the price cap for prepayment meter customers, between May and September 2019. The Prepayment Meter Price Cap came into force on 1 April 2017.…

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