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Electricity | Utility Week
Despite a brief media storm last week, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) was adamant that a new Energy Bill would be included in the Queen's Speech this week. A flurry of suggestions that the Bill would be pushed out by Lords' reform were firmly quashed by the department, but not be..
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No matter how often they reiterate the need to innovate, utilities still find it difficult. It may seem from inside those utilities that the world is changing fast, but for companies and individuals with new ideas to offer, getting a hearing is still frustrating and slow...
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It is not altogether surprising that Eon and RWE should have dropped their plans to build new nuclear power stations in the UK. Apart from the particular reasons they may have had for this decision, it is clear that - for anyone - putting money into the building of new nuclear power stations is risk..
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As a customer, I am not sure what predatory pricing is - but it sounds like a great way to get really low prices...
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Water companies put lots of effort into consulting their customers for the long term - witness Severn Trent's quick start on customer engagement for PR14. But when it comes to talking to them about drought, it has all been too little, too late...
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It's great to see some competition in the mass switching game. The Big Switch has been followed closely by the Huge Switch from energyhelpline.com. At Utility Week we guess that the Huge Switch will get favourable press coverage, mainly because energyhelpline.com provides the switching service..
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Some important aspects of the energy industry future will be under discussion at upcoming Utility Week meetings. ..
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UK | Utility Week
So far, successive governments have made a mess of convincing the public to save energy, and with it carbon...
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UK | Utility Week
One of the frustrations for customers of regulated industries is that on the rare occasion the regulator does impose a penalty, it disappears into the Treasury with no benefit to customers. Perhaps that's a frustration for regulators, too: they are taking a more inventive approach...
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The water industry thinks competition is great in its place - it calls for, and gets, fierce competition among its supply chain. But the industry has strongly resisted competition for its customers...
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