by News Editor | Feb 6, 2019 | Energy UK, Environment, News, water, water efficiency
Plans for Swansea Bay’s groundbreaking tidal power project have been revived with its backers claiming it can be built without public financial support. The UK government announced last summer that it would not support Tidal Lagoon Power’s (TLP) plans to build its...
by News Editor | Feb 6, 2019 | Carbon Emissions, Climate Targets, Environment, Low Carbon Generation, News
Annual carbon emissions in the UK fell by more than 37 per cent between 1990 and 2017 to 373 million tonnes, according to new figures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Greenhouse gas emissions, which also include methane, nitrous...
by News Editor | Feb 5, 2019 | Economy, Electricity, Energy UK, Environment, News, Ofgem
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to review the order it issued imposing a price cap on prepayment tariffs. The review will consider whether the order should be revoked or altered in light of several changes in circumstances, namely the slower...
by News Editor | Feb 5, 2019 | Economy, Electricity, Energy UK, News, Ofgem
Ofgem is expected to announce a significant increase to its price cap on default tariffs on Thursday (7 February). A number of industry analysts predict the price cap, which came into effect on 1 January 2019, will rise by around £100 from the current level of £1,137....
by News Editor | Feb 4, 2019 | Economy, Electricity, Energy UK, Environment, Smart Meters
The industry must avoid any hiatus in the smart meter rollout programme when installation of the SMETS1 devices ends in mid-March, Energy UK’s director of regulation has told MPs. In a letter to Rachel Reeves, chair of the House of Commons Business, Energy and...
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