It was a record breaking 2019 Easter weekend with the whole country revelling in end to end sunshine. Fewer people would have been aware ...

I have the same reaction to International Women’s Day (IWD) as I did when first asked to be a founder member of the Women’s Utilities Netw...

After a period in the energy retail market which has been characterized by business failure, profit warnings and general doom and gloom- ...

There has been much comment of late on the number of energy supply businesses going bust. Nine failures in about the same number of month...

For many energy professionals, coming back to work after the Christmas break may well be with a sense of doom. For let’s face it, the sec...

OFGEM have this week published their ‘minded to’ position resulting from their Targeted Charging Review which has caused shock waves and ...

Two suppliers failing in two days, with 419,000 customers thrown into the ‘supplier of last resort pot’ has the potential to truly shake ...

Like all dot-to-dot pictures, it is only when the dots are joined together that a true picture emerges. There are several stories in the ...

We recently delivered our daughter to her new student house and found a notice from her landlord pinned in a prominent position next to t...

As the dust settles following OFGEM’s fanfare announcement on energy price caps last week, it is worth stepping back and reviewing some o...

I gave a presentation yesterday on the future of the Energy market to 2050. During the presentation, I heard myself say ‘change has happe...

Keeping track of everything that is going on in the energy market has always been a challenge, and never more so than now as the pace of ...

Competition in the energy supply market remains a hot topic in the media. On the positive side, there is more competition now than ever b...

The dynamics of the UK’s energy market are notoriously complex and fraught with risk. The number of businesses and investors participatin...

​​​​ Few industries have comparable levels of inherent risk as the energy industry. All businesses, whatever their sector or target marke...

To welcome the New Year, BEIS this week published its Smart Meter Implementation Programme 2017 progress update. Reading it cold, a reade...

Big 6 This week’s profit warning from Centrica, followed gloomy results from SSE, Scottish Power and Npower and the announcement that SSE...

The announcement, last week that SSE and Npower are planning to spin off their respective retail businesses in a combined merger, makes a...

On Wednesday this week, Dieter Helm’s government sponsored Cost of Energy review was published. It is a very good document. Helm well des...

As the party conference season comes to an end, there is a depressing lack of direction in Energy policy to discuss. The two big politica...