Blog > October 2011
Thursday 27th October 2011
Earlier this week, Friends of the Earth (FOE) claimed that as many as nine out of ten Britons want a public inquiry into the power of Big Six energy companies. The environmental group revealed the figure from its latest survey of 1,000 people to promote its...
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Tuesday 25th October 2011
E.ON research has
shown that UK small businesses are losing as much as £7.7bn a year by failing
to install simple energy efficiency measures.
The
energy company found that only 20% of the 1,167 small and medium sized
businesses surveyed have energy efficient...
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Thursday 20th October 2011
Yesterday,
Closing the Loop for Everybody’s Energy Resources (CLEVER) in conjunction with
3C Research, BT, EDF Energy and PassivSystem, and the University of Bristol, announced
the launch of a platform that will be able to test the preparedness of IT and
communication...
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Tuesday 18th October 2011
Just
last week, the BBC reported that the profit margin for energy companies has
risen £125 per customer per year, from £15 in June. This is a mammoth rise in profits,
of just over eight times the original amount since the beginning of summer, but
it is...
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Thursday 13th October 2011
Yesterday,
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) announced its dynamic, game changing plan - to
start auctioning its entire electricity supply on the wholesale market. This is
the first time such a move has come from any of the big six suppliers, which
use...
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Tuesday 11th October 2011
It’s
less than two weeks after research by Moneysupermarket.com revealed that as many as 71 per cent of British
energy consumers may be faced with financial difficulties due to energy price
increases this winter. And unfortunately it looks like the new...
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Thursday 6th October 2011
Metering Europe is in full swing and ESMIG, the European Smart Metering Industry Group, yesterday revealed the results of independent research, written and published by global energy think tank, VaasaETT. The publication, “Empower Demand” is a report on...
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Tuesday 4th October 2011
Today is the first day of the industry leading meeting place for smart utility professionals, Metering Europe in Amsterdam. It’s the one of the key events in our annual calendar, and one of the places we as industry members can discuss the latest developments,...
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