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  • Solar to power Attenborough film at Glastonbury

    Solar to power Attenborough film at Glastonbury Jun 22, 2016 Priyanka Shrestha Sustainability Environment 0 Image: Paul D Smith/Shutterstock A David Attenborough film screened at Glastonbury Festival is to be powered by renewable energy. Solarcentury donated 30 panels with a capacity of 7.5KW for environmental group Greenpeace’s ‘Virtual Reality Dome’. The solar panels will generate […]

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  • CMA takes over investigation of energy price comparison sites

    CMA takes over investigation of energy price comparison sites Jun 23, 2016 Priyanka Shrestha Markets Finance, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating a suspected breach of law by energy price comparison websites. The competition watchdog will look into whether comparison websites agreed not to compete with each other […]

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  • TELCA ‘ahead of Ofgem’s TPI code of practice’

    TELCA ‘ahead of Ofgem’s TPI code of practice’ Jun 22, 2016 Priyanka Shrestha Latest Videos, Markets Finance, Top Stories 0   The Energy Live Consultancy Award (TELCA) has been very beneficial in helping improve customer service in the industry. That’s the view of Mervyn Bowden, Managing Director at Intuitive Energy Solutions and Chair of Judges […]

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  • Uncertainty in energy market due to Brexit – Y report

    Uncertainty in energy market due to Brexit – Y report Jun 21, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Markets Finance 0 Inenco Energy Trader Dorian Lucas. The EU referendum is adding uncertainty to the energy market in the UK. It is also one of the main drivers for gas and power prices, according to Inenco’s Y report. Customers who […]

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  • Spain’s Repsol faces $5.5bn claim from Chinese firm

    Spain’s Repsol faces $5.5bn claim from Chinese firm Jun 20, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Markets Finance 0 Image: Shutterstock Spanish oil firm Repsol has announced it faces a $5.5 billion (£3.74bn) arbitration claim from a Chinese state-controlled company. China’s Sinopec and its subsidiary Addax Petroleum UK are seeking repayment of the investment they made in Talisman Energy. […]

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  • UK’s green bank backs anaerobic digestion plants

    UK’s green bank backs anaerobic digestion plants Jun 21, 2016 Jonny Bairstow Sustainability Environment, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock Two farm-based anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in Northern Ireland have secured funding. The Foresight Group’s Recycling and Waste (RAW) Fund, of which the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is a large contributor, has invested £8.7 million in the 3MW Ballymena […]

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  • M&S invites customers to invest in solar

    MS invites customers to invest in solar Jun 19, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Markets Finance, Top Stories 0 Image: JuliusKielaitis / Shutterstock Marks and Spencer (MS) has launched a green energy initiative. Members of MS Society are invited to invest between £100 and £100,000 to install solar arrays in up to nine stores across the country. MS will buy the […]

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  • National Grid: Innovation key for a more flexible energy system

    National Grid: Innovation key for a more flexible energy system Jun 20, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Infrastructure Generation, Latest Videos, Top Stories 0   New technologies are cruicial in moving towards a flexible energy system that welcomes new players. That’s according to Cordi O’Hara, Director of UK System Operator at National Grid. Speaking at the grid […]

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  • Cambridge Uni bans investment in coal, tar sands

    Cambridge Uni bans investment in coal, tar sands Jun 17, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Coal, Gas Oil 0 Image: Shutterstock The University of Cambridge has blacklisted investments in coal and tar sands companies. In a statement, the institution said it has “no exposure to the most pollutive industries such as thermal coal and tar sands” and “no […]

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  • Ofgem’s price control ‘heading in the right direction’

    Ofgem’s price control ‘heading in the right direction’ Jun 17, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Latest Videos, Markets Finance, Top Stories 0 Ofgem’s current price control model is heading in the right direction. That’s the view of Alistair Buchanan, Chairman of UK Power and Utilities at KPMG who believes the RIIO framework (Revenue, Incentive, Innovation and Output) is pushing […]

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