18th October 2017 | Residential Energy
Big energy companies face a regulatory crackdown after the industry watchdog threatened to impose targets forcing suppliers to shift millions of customers off the market’s worst tariffs. Dermot Nolan, the Ofgem chief executive, said customers had failed to act quickly enough and should move faster to take customers off the standard variable tariffs which about…Read more
13th October 2017 | Recycling
Drinks giant Coca-Cola says any proposed plastic bottle deposit scheme should be UK-wide, MPs have heard. Nick Brown, head of sustainability for Coca-Cola Europe, said that in such a scheme the empty bottles become a “form of currency”. And he committee were told that if deposits varied between Scotland and England, people would have an…Read more
13th October 2017 | Residential Energy
The Big Six energy companies suffered a record exodus of more than 160,000 customers to smaller rivals in September, as British Gas increased electricity prices for millions of households. A monthly all-time high of 163,000 people left the largest suppliers – British Gas, EDF, Eon, Npower, SSE and ScottishPower – which have about 80% of…Read more
13th October 2017 | Recycling
Consumer goods giant, Procter & Gamble (P&G) this week explained plans to recycle used disposable nappies at sites across Europe. Speaking at the annual LARAC, local authority recycling officers’ conference, Di Ioannis Hatzopoulos, senior manager of sustainability communications at P&G, outlined the company’s investment in technology to recycle disposable nappies and other absorbent hygiene products…Read more
12th October 2017 | Residential Energy
British wholesale winter gas prices this winter should remain at the elevated levels seen so far this year due to high coal prices, uncertainty about French nuclear outages and low storage inventories. Early this year, winter 2017 gas prices rose to levels not seen since 2015. The winter 2018 contract is currently trading at around…Read more
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