The Scottish Government has defied cuts to energy efficiency programmes initiated by Westminster to launch a £224 million scheme to help as many as 28,000 Scottish homes combat fuel poverty.
Renewable energy utilities Ecotricity and Good Energy have topped a consumer poll carried out by Which? magazine to determine the best and worst utilities in the UK.
The government has reaffirmed its pledge to install 53 million smart meters across the UK by 2020 in its official response to the Competition Markets Authority’s (CMA) provisional findings in its energy market investigation.
The Competitions Market Authority (CMA) has ruled that “competition in the wholesale gas and electricity generation markets works well” in its provisional findings.
Energy management company, Schneider Electric has revealed that it has won a contract with distributed network operator, Electricity North West to install a Distribution Management System (DMS).
The Energy Networks Association, mouthpiece for the distributed network operators (DNOs) who maintain and operate the UK’s energy infrastructure, has outlined 10 priority areas for the next government.
The government’s plans to implement a near-universal rollout of smart meters to properties risks becoming a “costly failure”, according to the latest report from the energy and climate change committee.
Caroline Flint, Labour MP for Don Valley and shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change, released the party’s Green Paper: End to Cold Homes, in Hastings on Monday.