Greenpeace’s lawyers have filed a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office alleging that the Crown Estate is illegally withholding information concerning the option fees paid by offshore ...

PCS union members at Ofgem have announced another strike ballot will be held this week, amid an ongoing pay dispute. It comes after hundreds of PCS union members at the energy regulator walked out in ...

In our latest review of sector coverage in national media, the fallout from Channel 4’s Dirty Business continues with the revelation that Environment Agency staff downgraded thousands of serious ...

Water companies have warned Ofwat that the complexity of a forthcoming demand-growth reopener could have a "chilling effect" ...

A charity has urged electricity network operators to follow SSEN Distribution in delivering free home battery packs to ...

Tem and Electron have launched “the UK’s first physical hedging market” to help renewable energy ...

Energy minister Michael Shanks has pledged to explore a proposal to impose a new infrastructure co-ordination levy on major projects. Labour MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter proposed a new levy on all ...

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) will not “stop the clock” on the 90-day window for accepting a Gate 2 connection offer, even if it includes an error that needs to be resolved. Explaining ...

The government should develop a strategy to “gracefully wind down the gas network” as greater numbers of heat pumps are installed, So Energy’s head of regulation has said. Paul Fuller told Utility ...

A Cornish developer has switched on a power plant which is the first in the UK to generate electricity from the Earth's heat. Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) hailed a "landmark step" as it started ...

The volume of customers who plunge into debt after moving into a new home is even higher than Ofgem has calculated, Scottish Power has estimated. In a consultation paper, published in December, the ...

The chief executive of Drax expects the company’s biomass power plant to still be in operation in the 2050s. Speaking with Utility Week, Will Gardiner said that contracts with data centres will ensure ...