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Electricity | Utility Week
Smart metering has the potential to deliver huge benefits to many parties, but current proposals come at a high price to the consumer - an estimated £12 billion. More companies than ever are voicing serious concerns about both the timescales, costs and promised financial benefits...
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soapbox | Utility Week
Some have whispered it: without sufficient gas-fired generation over the coming decade, the lights will go out when the wind is not blowing. Thankfully, the government has started to say it out loud: that flexible gas-fired power generation, which emits about 50 per cent less carbon than coal, is ke..
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soapbox | Utility Week
Every time we have a drought, we have a drought summit, and the usual suspects get together to discuss how best to manage the short-term situation. Always the short-term situation...
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UK | Utility Week
A piece of received wisdom has crept up on us over the past year or so. It is that the cost of replacing and uprating our energy generation and grid delivery capacity in the UK will be between £200 billion and £300 billion by 2030. Ministers now reel it off routinely as fact during debates..
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UK | Utility Week
The potential impact of shale gas tends to get people excited. The debate often gets heated, and positions quickly become polarised...
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soapbox | Utility Week
At the start of the year, Which? published the results of its energy company satisfaction survey. Not only was this a great accolade for Good Energy, which topped the league table with a score of 84 per cent, but it was also a big win for the smaller suppliers in general, which took the top fi..
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soapbox | Utility Week
The charges levied by distribution and transmission companies for use of their networks are so volatile and unpredictable that they create major unhedgeable risks for suppliers. From 2010 to 2011, domestic electricity distribution charges changed between -3 per cent and 24 per cent, based on average..
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soapbox | Utility Week
Consumers in Northern Ireland suffer from some of the highest costs of energy in Europe. This, combined with the lowest average wage of all the regions in the UK, has resulted in a fuel poverty level three times higher than that in Great Britain...
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soapbox | Utility Week
The UK government now seems to have accepted that new unabated gas-fired power stations will be required when dirtier plant is closed after 2015. New combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) have lower emissions than coal, yet retain the flexibility required to accommodate variable renewables...
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soapbox | Utility Week
The first new Water White Paper for nine years was released in December, and it could mean 2012 will be a demanding year for the England and Wales water utility sector. Significant changes to the current abstraction regime, more businesses able to change water supplier, longer-term integrated planni..
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