In the first Capacity Market auction, held last week, the scheme largely failed to deliver new-build gas plants to meet market needs in 2018, according to provisional results released on Friday.
Over the six years that Fiona Cochrane has been working on energy policy at Which?, the energy team has grown from half a person to six full-time staff. It’s an indication of energy’s high profile in consumer affairs. Which?
Pressure to divert waste from landfill has been intensified by dramatic increases in the gate fees for landfill disposal – from £7 per tonne of “mixed waste” in 1997 to £100 and over today.
Energy regulator Ofgem has written to the chief executives of energy companies to tell them to improve the way they handle customer complaints or face regulatory action.
The cost of the new Capacity Market (CM) is "unbelievably sensitive" to a range of factors in the bids submitted to the process, including the number of years used to recover costs, electricity prices and prices bid into the auction, Dan Roberts o
The Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change has opened a new inquiry into the implementation of electricity market reform (EMR).
It will ask:
ABB hopes to see a breakeven fourth quarter in 2014 for its troubled power systems business, the company said during an investor day in September.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has asked for comments on plans to ease ownership restrictions, introduced in accordance with the EU's "third package" of market reforms.
SSE has sold its subsidiary SSE Pipelines Ltd to a new fund, the Environmental Capital Fund (ECF) for £52.7 million. ECF is managed by Scottish Equity Partners LLP (SEP).