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Doubt hangs over competitive retail market opening date

Industry insiders and commentators expressed scepticism yesterday over whether the government's planned competitive retail market can be ready by the regulator's preferred opening date. ...more »

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UK

  1. Doubt hangs over competitive retail market opening date

    UK | Utility Week

    Industry insiders and commentators expressed scepticism yesterday over whether the government's planned competitive retail market can be ready by the regulator's preferred opening date...

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  2. Ed Davey is new energy secretary

    UK | Utility Week

    Ed Davey, MP for Kingston & Surbiton and former minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs is to replace Chris Huhne as energy secretary...

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  3. Huhne charged with perverting course of justice - and quits

    UK | Utility Week

    Energy secretary Chris Huhne has been charged with perverting the course of justice by the Crown Prosecution Service. Huhne is accused of persuading his then wife Vicky Pryce to claim that she was responsible for one of his speeding offences...

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  4. Energy Innovation Centre given £30 million to fund smart grid entrepreneurs

    UK | Utility Week

    A technology incubator has been given almost £30 million by energy regulator Ofgem to bring smart grid technologies to market. ..

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  5. Barker says feed-in tariffs will rise for microCHP

    UK | Utility Week

    Energy and climate Change minister Greg Barker said today that higher subsidies for micro combined heat and power (microCHP) under the feed-in tariff scheme would soon be raised...

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  6. Wessex Water joins metal theft sting

    UK | Utility Week

    Ten people have been arrested in relation to metal theft after Wessex Water joined police in scrap yard raids on Monday...

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  7. Scottish Power claims success as customers switch to cheaper tariff

    UK | Utility Week

    Scottish Power claimed today that its letters to customers telling them to switch to direct debit are bearing fruit, with around 21,700 customers changing tariff in the last three months. ..

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  8. SSE customer numbers hold steady despite price rises

    UK | Utility Week

    SSE customers paid on average 6.6 per cent less for their gas and electricity in the nine months to December the company said today. That was despite using 26.6 per cent less gas and 8.3 per cent less electricity year on year...

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  9. Water bills rising

    UK | Utility Week

    The average water bill in England and Wales is expected to rise by 0.5 per cent above inflation to £376 in 2012/13...

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  10. Scottish Water launches international arm, starting with Canada

    UK | Utility Week

    Scottish Water is exporting expertise to Canada in what it hopes will be the first of many contracts for its newly launched international division...

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Europe

  1. EU goes to World Trade Organisation over Canada's feed-in tariff protectionism

    Electricity | Utility Week

    The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is establishing a disputes panel to rule on whether feed-in tariff systems can limit their subsidies to electricity produced by locally-made technology - or whether such conditions break global commerce rules. ..

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  2. Emission Trading Scheme 'failing to reduce emissions', says committee

    Europe | Utility Week

    The European Commission must strengthen its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), says the bloc's European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). ..

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  3. De-risking renewables

    Electricity | Utility Week

    Funding renewable energy projects is becoming more challenging because of increasing financial, regulatory and operational risks. But it is not too late for government, the insurance sector and banks to help, says Siân Crampsie..

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  4. Utilities asked to claim €21 million to support interconnection

    Electricity | Utility Week

    Utilities will soon be asked by Brussels to apply for funding from the European Union 2012 trans-European energy network (TENs) spending programme that funds new electricity and gas infrastructure linking different countries. A formal call for proposals will be issued by the end of February...

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  5. Switzerland's nuclear exit?

    Electricity | Utility Week

    Switzerland's plans to abandon nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima accident are not yet set in stone - and depend on the results of debates, consultations and a referendum. Siân Crampsie says it's not game over yet..

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  6. Brussels plots more ITER funding

    UK | Utility Week

    THE European Commission has drafted a plan ensuring cash-strapped international nuclear fusion project ITER would have funding of Euro EUR2.573 billion from 2014 to 2018...

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  7. Scottish Power parent Iberdrola confirms French offshore wind bid

    Electricity | Utility Week

    Iberdrola said today that it has submitted bids as part of a consortium hoping to build a 500MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Brittany and a 480MW scheme in the Loire Atlantique...

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  8. Danes prepare for green push

    Electricity | Utility Week

    Denmark will take over the presidency of the European Union for six months in January and has signalled that it plans to pursue its national championing of renewables and energy investment at a European level. David Hayhurst reports..

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  9. Brussels earmarks billions for energy research, with smart grids a priority

    Electricity | Utility Week

    The development of smart networks will be a priority for research budgets worth billions of Euros proposed by the European Commission that can be tapped by innovative utilities seeking to boost their research and development spending. ..

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  10. Brussels wants worldwide nuclear safety improvements

    Electricity | Utility Week

    A €631.1 million spending programme designed to improve nuclear power plant safety worldwide has been proposed by the European Commission...

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