London’s deputy mayor for the environment Shirley Rodrigues has said that the mayor’s flagship energy scheme ‘Energy for Londoners’ is to go live by April.
The Scottish government has begun to explore the possibility of launching its own energy supply company, following in the tracks of the UK councils behind Bristol Energy and Robin Hood Energy.
British Gas Business has been fined £9.5 million by industry regulator Ofgem after it “let customers down” when it botched its migration to a new IT billing system.
Ofgem has insisted its supplier controls are sufficient to protect customers, defying criticism it received after last month’s collapse of GB Energy Supply.
Energy company Drax has confirmed it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Opus Energy – one of the UK’s largest business energy suppliers – for a conditional sum of £340 million.