Ørsted has agreed to divest its Danish power distribution (Radius), residential customer and City Light businesses to SEAS-NVE, adding £2.5 billion (DKK 21.3 billion) to its war chest for further expansion. The Danish company has investments in eleven UK offshore…

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The European Commission has approved a £40 billion asset swap between E.On and RWE that will reshape the two energy giants. The asset swap had aleady been approved by competition authorities in Germany and the UK.  E.On told Innogy’s board earlier…

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The target rollout date for smart meters is to be delayed by four years and the number of smart meters involved has been reduced to 85% of domestic properties. BEIS says around a quarter of households now have smart meters…

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Ovo Energy has reached agreement with SSE to buy SSE’s GB household energy and related services business. The plan has to be approved by the Competition and Markets Authority, and SSE says that is expected in late 2019 or early 2020,…

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Utilita Energy  has been appointed as the supplier of last resort for the customers of Eversmart Energy. Utilita took over supply for these customers with effect from 11 September. Eversmart Energy has ceased trading and its customers will enter the ‘supplier of…

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The government will make “new, bolder steps” in climate change and “refresh our ambitions” to meet net zero carbon emission targets, Lord Ian Duncan – appointed parliamentary under secretary of state for climate change at BEIS less than two months ago,…

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Companies supplying low-carbon energy technologies have called on government to be more ambitious in setting net-zero requirements for homes and businesses and provide a stable policy and regulatory framework to help industry deliver them. They say  ”Fudging the current regulatory framework…

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Simec Atlantis Energy wants to build a data centre in the Caithness region of Scotland that would be partly powered  via a private wire network from tidal turbines at the company’s MeyGen project site. MeyGen has a 6MW operational array which has…

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Bristol has opened the procurement process for Bristol City Leap, a plan to attract £1 billion of investment to deliver a zero-carbon, smart energy city by 2030. It has now kicked off the procurement process (likely to last several months)…

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Alderney Electricity (AEL) has signed heads of terems with Simec Atlantis Energy (via its joint venture Normandie Hydroliennes) to supply the Channel Island  with power from a proposed tidal array and reduce the island’s reliance on diesel generation. The heads of…

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