The UK water industry’s position on shale gas fracking – that there are risks but they can be mitigated – has led to both dismay and delight on each side of the debate. In the pro-shale gas extraction camp, there…
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Big Six price rises and falls
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Company Increase, (electricity/gas), % Date Reduction, % Date British Gas 10.4/8.4 23 Nov 3.2 1 Jan EDF Energy 3.9 3 Jan E.On 3.7/4.6 18 Jan Npower 9.3/11.1 1 Dec 2.6 28 Feb SSE 8.20 15 Nov 3.5 24 Mar…
We must consider the total cost of infrastructure spending and its consumer impact
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Last month the National Audit Office (NAO) suggested that government needs to look more closely at how its policies on investing in the UK’s infrastructure affect customers’ pockets. The key points of the NAO’s report[1] were that the cost of…
Fuel poverty is bigger than the energy companies: government must share responsibility
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In September New Power interviewed Derek Lickorish, chair of the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group. He said: “If we are not careful we are seduced into the notion that this is all about the energy companies. That is very dangerous and…
ECO attack is a distraction technique by energy companies
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The BBC is reporting that next Thursday the Government will announce that the only nationwide programme designed to help householders make their homes more energy efficient is to be cut by 50%. It is absolutely disgraceful that the big energy…
Price freeze “will distort the market”, says Littlechild
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Ex-energy regulator Stephen Littlechild takes issue with Labour’s energy market reform proposals this month’s New Power: On the price freeze: “It’s going to distort the market, it’s going to discourage investment, it’s going to impact not just on the retail…
What next for nuclear waste?
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Ross Hayman of public relations and stakeholder engagement consultancy Copper says the government should learn from its most recent failed attempt to find a home for nuclear waste. The time for delay is past. The search for an underground site…
Decc is talking greenwash on renewables jobs
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Alex Henney argues that the government has been over-optimistic in estimating the number of new jobs that will be created as a result of its low-carbon power policies A press release from the Department of Energy and Climate Change…
The hardest hit
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William Baker describes new research from Consumer Futures that looks at the cost of government energy policies on households and identifies the likely winners and losers.
Offshore wind – why cost reduction must now take precedence
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Phil de Villiers – Head of Offshore Wind, the Carbon Trust It’s been a busy few weeks for the UK’s offshore wind industry. David Cameron provided a welcome boost by generating some long overdue positive headlines when he cut the…