Good Energy and EV charging network specialists Engenie have formed a partnership to support new business opportunities in the fast‐moving electric vehicle market. Data from Zap‐Map, the app partly owned by Good Energy, shows that the number of public charge…

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Rating agency Moody’s has downgraded ratings of Centrica’s debt. In a note it said that British Gas’s owner had seen profit fall by 35% in 2019, due to the default tariff cap, low wholesale gas prices and nuclear outages. While…

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“Reducing carbon emissions and enhancing the environment are major government priorities,” according to Chancellor Rishi Sunak MP, who told MPs in his Budget statement that government wanted to “Create the high-skill high-wage low-carbon jobs of the future”. He wanted to, “Raise…

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Lord Deben, chair, Climate Change Committee: “This a realistic start. Obviously we will have to wait for the Infrastructure Strategy to see it all in the round. I am particularly pleased to see the Chancellor’s support for carbon capture and storage…

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“The existing [competition and markets] framework, in the years ahead, just won’t do. It has to be substantially improved”. That was the summation from Andrew Tyrie, chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), at a recent Policy Exchange debate…

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Energy customers on pre-payment meters are still on a raw deal for energy supply because technical barriers continue to constrain competition and choice, according to Ofgem. A Competition and Markets Authority review last year also found that the conditions of competition…

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Gridserve has begun construction of an ‘Electric Forecourt’ near Braintree, Essex. The project was granted an electricity generation licence last week. It will have capacity to charge 24 electric vehicles at once, with chargers rated at 350kW that allow a…

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