Neil Kirkby, managing director for enterprise, SSE Energy Solutions, says the huge levels of investment flowing into green energy can create highly skilled green jobs across the regions.
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All five of Great Britain's gas networks are to leave trade body the Energy Networks Association (ENA) at the end of 2024, Utility Week can reveal. The ENA said that “in view of the changing energy policy landscape” the gas networks had reviewed their membership and concluded “their interests are best served by leaving” the umbrella organisation.
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GMB and Centrica are once again locked in a dispute over the latter’s major restructure plans, with the union claiming the energy company offered payments to thousands of engineers so they would accept worse terms and conditions. A hearing at Reading Employment Tribunal is on behalf of 3,000 British Gas engineers who GMB claims were offered inducements prior to the bitter fire and rehire dispute.
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Octopus Energy has acquired a 12.5% stake in the Walney Extension windfarm site in the Irish Sea. It is the first deal made through its dedicated £3bn wind fund to grow its portfolio of renewably generated energy
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In our latest round-up of the weekend’s national news coverage, energy minister Lord Callanan has suggested the government is going cold on hydrogen for home heating, while one city council is planning to ban gas hobs and boilers in new homes from 2025. Elsewhere, Labour has denied claims it could further water down its flagship green prosperity plan and the boss of Rolls-Royce is expected to urge the government to throw its full weight behind British nuclear technology developed by the engineering giant.
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The government has been accused of “breaking promises to the most vulnerable in society” after not delivering proposals for an energy social tariff first outlined a year ago. Jeremy Hunt first acknowledged the need to examine targeted bill support in last year’s autumn statement with a consultation planned for this summer. But both Conservative and opposition MPs have now lamented the lack of action.
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The National Underground Asset Register has been extended to cover all of England and Wales as a digital record of pipes, cables and buried assets. It is intended to save time and money for street works projects as well as reducing the risk of harm to workers from cable strikes.
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In our latest round-up of industry appointments, Utility Warehouse brings in a new chief operating officer and Ovo’s acquisition of an EV charging app sees two new additions to its team. Elsewhere, gas network operator Cadent has unveiled the chair of its Customer Challenge Group, trade body the Carbon Capture Storage Association has also announced a new chair and Centrica makes two non-executive director appointments.
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The Department for Business and Trade has said it wants to stimulate competition within the water sector through streamlined regulation as well as delegating some of Ofwat's powers around the non-domestic market.
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Environmental regulation in Wales came under fire from politicians at a select committee hearing where witnesses described a cultural aversion to enforcement at Natural Resources Wales. The organisation's CEO said prosecution indicated regulation had failed and did not benefit the environment.
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The government has revealed plans to hold a “thorough review” of economic regulators’ duties, including those of Ofgem and Ofwat, to ensure they remain fit for purpose. The Department for Business and Trade said the expansion of their duties over time has made it harder for regulators to manage priorities and trade-offs as tensions arise.
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Flexibility services provider Piclo has unveiled a new platform which it says will be a “one stop shop for all electricity markets globally”. Piclo Max will be rolled out in the UK from next year and is designed to simplify and improve electricity market access for flexibility service providers.
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