Blog > July 2011
Thursday 28th July 2011
British
Gas has been in the spotlight this week. The energy provider has been fined £2.5m by Ofgem
for the way it deals with customer complaints, but today, British
Gas announced profits of almost £3m a day over the last six months.
The
latest fine...
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Tuesday 26th July 2011
The
findings of the Energy
and Climate Change (ECC) Select Committee report on
the mis-selling of
gas and electricity deals on the doorstep, published yesterday, are hard to
disagree with. The report highlights how hard-sell tactics and complex tariffs
could...
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Thursday 21st July 2011
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), the UK’s second
largest energy generation business, has become the third member of the
'Big Six' to announce price rises. The average price increase for electricity will be
11% and for gas 18% from 14th September and...
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Tuesday 19th July 2011
The
House of Commons voted to approve
energy planning reforms last night. It means developers of major energy
projects in England and Wales will now have greater certainty on how planning
applications will be considered after the Energy National Policy...
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Thursday 14th July 2011
This week, energy secretary
Chris Huhne outlined a radical reform of the electricity market, coinciding
with the publication of the Government’s Electricity
Market Reform (EMR) White Paper.
The paper, “Planning
our electric future: a White Paper for...
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Tuesday 12th July 2011
It’s certainly not been a
good week for energy companies, who have been firmly thrust into the spotlight
by the national media through price increase announcements, calls from the
government urging consumers to switch suppliers, and reports on mis-selling....
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Thursday 7th July 2011
As you may have read in my previous blogs, recent
research from Navetas found a massive 88% want to better understand how they are using energy. So I’m pleased to say that the development of our new energy display
will bring consumers
one step closer to...
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Tuesday 5th July 2011
Last week the National
Audit Office (NAO) cast doubts about the economic viability of the smart meter
rollout, which will see more than 50 million smart meters in domestic and non-domestic
premises by 2019, as part of the government's plans for a smart...
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Monday 4th July 2011
A prominent
figure at moneysupermarket.com, the leading price comparison website, has
issued a call to arms for the British public to force energy companies into slashing
the price of gas and electricity.
Scott Byrom, a utilities manager at moneysupermarket,...
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Friday 1st July 2011
Yesterday in a report released by the
Committee on Climate Change (CCC) it emerged that the UK’s greenhouse gas
emissions are not falling fast enough. In fact, the report found that
emissions rose by 3% in 2010, which puts the Government behind its target...
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