Vulnerability, affordability and opportunities for accelerated investment: New norms for UK energy
As we woke to the horrific and slightly unbelievable news that Putin has gone ahead and invaded Ukraine, immediate thoughts and...
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Jo Butlin
4 min
Life beyond the Energy Storm: The need for fundamental market redesign.
I had a really thought provoking conversation yesterday about the current state of the energy market, and in the context of delivering...
Jo Butlin
3 min
The future of energy retail: Capital vs Innovation
I was fortunate to attend a really interesting senior industry lunch last week where much of the debate was inevitably focused around the...
Jo Butlin
4 min
UK Energy Retail- Time for a new model
If nothing else, the current gas price crisis, and the consequent failure of multiple suppliers must now catalyse a fundamental review of...
Jo Butlin
3 min
UK Energy Retail: Precarious at best. Un-investible at worst.
Last week Bulb Energy published its latest financial results which were positioned as ‘another very successful year’ with 46% growth in...
Jo Butlin
3 min
Net Zero: The UK's next industrial revolution?
It is now a month since the Government launched its Energy White Paper ‘Powering our Net Zero Future’. And what a month. Apart from the...
Jo Butlin
7 min
The Power of Caring: Energy debt in a Covid world
Financial hardship and energy debt Covid-19, for many people, is about to have a far greater impact than health worries, concern for...
Jo Butlin
3 min
Unlocking energy market innovation and investment- A new era for retail?
I rarely get a good feeling when reading OFGEM consultations in relation to energy retail markets- but their latest is an exception. The...
Jo Butlin
3 min
UK Energy Retail: Planning to Fail?
OFGEM's latest consultation published yesterday, is positioned as 'raising standards for existing suppliers', but start reading and it is...
Jo Butlin
4 min
Stimulating investment through the Energy Transition: The Heat is on!
In these torrid times, it is good to see some clear signals emerging from BEIS on its thinking on how to transform generation of the UK's...
Jo Butlin
3 min
The world is upside down, but the sky is still blue: Energy Markets beyond…
It is very easy, in these incredibly challenging times, to get totally preoccupied with the here and now. For the worst affected it is...
Jo Butlin
3 min
Energy market survival in a crisis: Lessons learned from 2002
One of the most exciting (and terrifying) times of my career was living through the collapse of TXU and its subsequent acquisition by...
Jo Butlin
2 min
Spring is in the air: Energy markets
It may be because the daffodils are looking fantastic, and it seems to have finally stopped blowing and raining, but it feels like spring...
Jo Butlin
3 min
Friday’s shopping list- planning for Net Zero
We’re all talking about it- Net Zero has become the new buzz word. Climate Emergency has been declared by the majority of Councils and...
Jo Butlin
2 min
New Year: New Optimism for UK Energy Markets
Let’s face it, 2019 was a pretty tough year for the UK energy market. Most operational businesses saw declining profits and for several,...
Jo Butlin
4 min
UK Energy retail market- where to next?
As the tragic news of 4,500 job losses from Npower reverberates around the UK, there is finally a real sense of shock and concern on the...
Jo Butlin
2 min
Doh! Making the game harder to achieve zero carbon
The exasperation and frustration from the renewables market is tangible today as OFGEM confirms its decision on the revised treatment of...
Jo Butlin
2 min
Delivering change when the rules of the game keep changing: Zero Carbon challenge
With the impact of Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion movement, the announcement of Zero Carbon targets for all or any of 2025,...
Jo Butlin
4 min
UK Energy Retail markets: Room for another or avoid at all cost?
The last month has seen announcements relating to the UK’s retail energy market which have potentially seismic implications....
Jo Butlin
3 min
Delays to Smart meter roll out: Lessons to be learned
Nobody who has any understanding of the Smart meter roll out programme was surprised by yesterday’s announcement that the deadline for...
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