It may not be the sort of riveting read you want to pack in your holiday suitcase, but Ofgem's latest... ...more »

An interesting press release pings into the email inbox of a colleague of Disconnector. It's from Sydney. It talks about... ...more »

Disturbing image of the week (number 273 in an occasional series): during last week's Commons debate on energy efficiency there... ...more »

Should you think your electricity supply licence application to Ofgem is not going quite as swimmingly as you hoped, it... ...more »

Would you believe it? A dossier detailing a decade's worth of claimed government malpractice has landed with a thud in... ...more »

Corrie's Kym Marsh has been touring shopping centres in England and Scotland with the Energy Retail Association's Home Heat Helpline's... ...more »

This week's question: why was there was no discernible tender process before Whitehall handed the responsibility for the new feed-in-tariff... ...more »

Here's a cautionary tale from across the pond. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company is facing a class action suit... ...more »

Sir Geoff Hurst MBE, football legend and charity campaigner, has just launched the BG Energy Challenge - UK. This is... ...more »

Clearly, these lads are very excited about something. Could it be a giant truffle? Actually, Disconnector hasn't a clue. He... ...more »

What is happening at Ofgem? Wilf Wilde, who was appointed director of marketing and public affairs about a year ago,... ...more »

Here's an interesting conundrum. Guess which politician said the following last week? "If the President of Europe can be chosen... ...more »

The Energy Bill has been scrutinised by a committee of MPs in the Commons. The process has not been a... ...more »

Here's a turn up for the books. The tiny but perfectly formed New Party has lodged a complaint with the... ...more »

You have to admire the chutzpah of the company. Disconnector refers to the opportunist ads rushed out by energy supplier... ...more »

First the good news. Apparently us Brits know more about climate change than our European counterparts, according to research launched... ...more »

Largely untrumpeted, Ofgem now has a director of marketing and public affairs called Wilf Wilde, an old chum of chief... ...more »

TV favourite Melanie Sykes has launched the search for the Green Voice of Great Britain on behalf of the Energy... ...more »

Should Ofgem be reported to the Competition Commission for anti-competitive behaviour? Disconnector muses thus after the watchdog published an exchange... ...more »

A record number of teams from the energy industry took part in the BG Energy Challenge 2009 this month, involving... ...more »

As cheesy pictures go, this takes the biscuit. All right, we know that illustrating cavity wall insulation in hard-to-heat homes... ...more »

Billing stories, eh? They do keep on coming. Npower, the retail marketing arm of one of the big six energy... ...more »

Pictured is Oscar, one of RWE Npower's characters who tour schools recruiting "climate cops". Here the big man is clearly... ...more »

Steve Smith was in combative form at last week's annual Transporting Britain's Energy meeting organised by National Grid. Ofgem's networks... ...more »

Last week's Commons debate had a telephone directory moment. The Lib Dems' Simon Hughes drew attention to the complexity of... ...more »

In terms of winning the hearts and minds of parliamentarians, Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan has not been having a... ...more »

Much politicking in Brussels currently where the Agency for Co-operation of Energy Regulators (Acer) is being established. But who will... ...more »

Who do you think was the most relieved person this week when the Department of Energy and Climate Change published... ...more »

There weren't many laughs when two Lords select committees recently grilled energy and climate change minister Lord Hunt on such... ...more »

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband is generally not the sort of politician who is lost for words. But... ...more »

This week's shenanigans in the Square Mile claimed an early casualty. SBGI had planned an energy and heat seminar for... ...more »

Now, the Liberal Democrats have always been the greenest of the major political parties, but there is clearly no love... ...more »

Spare a thought for cash-strapped and credit-crunched Merthyr Tydfil FC, which is carrying a lot of debt and facing problems... ...more »

Those parliamentarians are nothing if not competitive. Last week, for example, former Tory shadow energy minister Bernard Jenkin MP and... ...more »

People using the Humber Bridge recently were astonished to glimpse Scooby Doo, a pink flamingo, an Easter Bunny, a chicken... ...more »

It hardly seems likely that anyone will have tried to get through the start of the year's cold snap without... ...more »

"The words "exciting" and "metering" rarely make it into the same sentence..." How true but "all that is about to... ...more »

Things we wish we hadn't said but you know what we meant (number 374 in an occasional series). Sandra White... ...more »

Energywatch is dead, gone, pushing up daisies, consigned to the dustbin of history. Or is it? The great man reflects... ...more »

Ofgem's recent seminar was noteworthy for the fact that there was no discussion at all about the impact of the... ...more »

Last week's Winter Outlook seminar organised by Ofgem was noteworthy on a number of levels. First, there was the furore... ...more »

Maybe nuclear giant EDF wishes Clare Spottiswoode, one-time energy regulator, was still on the board of British Energy ...more »

It just goes to show what a pariah Centrica has become. Disconnector refers to the column inches expended on the revelation that the company "splashed out on a £25,000 junket" for staff ...more »

Boris Johnson's latest gaffe, which has left the Norwegians unamused, has an intriguing utility slant ...more »

Top regulator Lord John Mogg has been busy in the Upper Chamber having his half- penny's worth in a number... ...more »

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Should the coal producers and generators be quaking in their boots? Maybe. Last weekend, climate change activists established a camp... ...more »

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Earlier this month there was a set-piece debate in the House of Commons on energy security. There was an intriguing... ...more »

According to new research from the Energy Saving Trust, two-fifths of us think that our boys (and girls) in blue... ...more »