21st July 2016 | Residential Energy
SSE, one of the UK’s “Big Six” energy producers and second largest, said that it had lost another 50,000 electricity and gas customers during the three months ending June 30 as smaller suppliers continue to grab market share from the incumbents. These smaller suppliers typically have less costly infrastructure to support, put an emphasis on…Read more
20th July 2016 | Commercial Energy
The Flexibility on Demand report, released on Tuesday 19 July, says that UK energy consumers could save £2.3bn by 2035 and that business-led demand response initiatives could reduce demand on the electricity grid and lower national costs by £8.1bn by 2030: this is more than £300 per household. Businesses venturing in to demand response initiatives…Read more
19th July 2016 | Rural Energy
The uncertainty caused by the Brexit vote is impacting further on the North Sea, increasing shutdowns in oil-fields. According to consulting firm Wood Mackenzie Ltd, about 30% of oil fields in the North Sea operating at a loss, as it is one of the world’s highest cost regions. And the fact that the price of…Read more
18th July 2016 | Commercial Energy
One of the first moves which new UK Prime Minister Theresa May made was to scrap the Department of Energy and Climate Change. This caused Scotland’s Energy Minister, Paul Wheelhouse, to call for urgent calls with the UK Government: he said that this calls into question Theresa May’s commitment to tackling climate change and supporting…Read more
15th July 2016 | Recycling
Richard Tomlinson, farmer at Lodge Farm in North Wales, has been generating electricity since 2011 from cow dung: he generates electricity and heat for the farmhouse, an on-site engineering works and 80+ homes via an anaerobic co-digester. It works on the slurry of his herd of 300 cattle, chicken litter which cannot be used for…Read more