11th August 2016 | Residential Energy
Another Big Six Energy Supplier has become the latest to suffer, as Eon loses residential customers: competition from smaller rivals has sent sales in Eon’s U residential arm tumbling by 19%. The German-owned provider said revenues in its residential business fell to £1.47bn to the end of June from £1.8bn a year earlier. Eon is…Read more
9th August 2016 | Commercial Energy
The new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy agreed to a fast-track industry forum as the sector battles its most prolonged downturn to date. Greg Clark MP flew up to Aberdeen, just a couple of weeks after taking up his new post, whereas his predecessor, Amber Rudd, took more than a year…Read more
4th August 2016 | Residential Energy
Fifteen years on from the deregulation of the retail energy market in the UK, the majority of customers have never switched to a different energy supplier. And many of those have not attempted to move to a lower tariff. Energy users require transparency about the different rates and deals available to them. The Big Six…Read more
3rd August 2016 | Residential Energy
Energy regulator Ofgem has announced a price cap for pre-payment gas and electricity meters. These are typically meters which are used by the poorest households in the UK, which provide amongst the most expensive sources of electricity and gas for consumers. It will affect about four million households, and should save them an average of…Read more
2nd August 2016 | Commercial Energy
UK household greenhouse gas emissions are up 3% according to official figures. The most recent data, from between 2012 and 2013, shows the amount of greenhouse gases linked to goods and services consumed by UK households was up – this includes emissions from the foreign manufacture of imported products. Although these figures do not look…Read more