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All wrapped up? Questions over the Green Deal

The government's Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation consultation closed last week. With nine months until the schemes launch, Roger Milne finds lots of uncertainties and concerns. ...more »

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UK

  1. Creative white space


    Mathew Palmer says TV spectrum "white space" could facilitate the communications technology of choice for smart grids...

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  2. In slickness and in health


    Health and safety regulation is to be streamlined and simplified. Rob Elvin and Hayley Schofield look at the implications for utilities...

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  3. Going to plan


    The Energy Infrastructure Portal has smoothed the path for network operators applying for planning consents, as Justin Hassall and Ian Grimley explain...

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  4. In full flow: Tony Smith interviewed


    The affordability provisions in the Water White Paper are woefully inadequate and will leave thousands of customers struggling to pay. Tony Smith discusses the issues with Karma Ockenden...

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  5. IDoKs - will water companies get extra cash?


    Nigel Hawkins sees little possibility for price movements through IDoKs in the current economic climate...

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Interviews

  1. In full flow: Tony Smith interviewed


    The affordability provisions in the Water White Paper are woefully inadequate and will leave thousands of customers struggling to pay. Tony Smith discusses the issues with Karma Ockenden...

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  2. All for one - the unification of energy trade bodies


    David Porter, chief executive of the AEP and Utility Week's newly crowned Industry Champion of 2011, is on the brink of uniting the AEP, ERA and UKBCSE into a single organisation. He talks to Janet Wood...

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  3. Winner on aggregate


    SmartestEnergy has been offering aggregation services to the energy industry for ten years. Janet Wood caught up with the company's very positive chief executive, Robert Groves...

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  4. Basil Scarsella: raising the busbar


    Basil Scarsella aims to make electricity networks in the South East and London among the country's top performers. He talked highs and lows with Janet Wood...

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  5. John Hutton, nuclear renaissance man


    John Hutton was the man who told Parliament that nuclear power was back. Now he heads the trade body representing the industry, as he tells Roger Milne...

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Europe

  1. The Netherlands' energy factories


    The Dutch are rebranding their sewage works as "energy factories". Could British water companies follow suit, asks Richard Ratcliff?..

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  2. Finland keeps faith with nuclear power


    While Germany ditches nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima crisis, John Pagni finds that Finland's faith remains unshaken...

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  3. What impact will shale gas make in Europe?


    Shale gas has been heralded as the new black gold in the US, but what sort of an impact is it likely to make in Europe? Nigel Hawkins reports...

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  4. Start the meter


    Phil McDermott says 2011 will be the year that smart meters come of age, not just in the UK but throughout Europe...

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  5. Nuclear options


    Building a nuclear power plant is not just a tough technical challenge, it is also a tough management challenge, say Matthias von Bechtolsheim, Michael Kruse and Jan Junker...

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