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As a major contractor to the utilities sector announces pay cuts for a swathe of its workforce, Utility Week gauges what this means for the sector and of others may follow suit.
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SMS has acquired energy technology firm Solo Energy, which has developed the FlexiGrid aggregation platform. The company also provides battery storage, microgeneration, and electric vehicle chargers to homes and businesses.
The supplier is currently undergoing a review which will consider "all options" for the company going forward. One industry insider described the situation as an "absolute travesty".
In the first part of our interview with Cadent chief executive Steve Fraser, we discussed the company’s past performance issues and his efforts to resolve them. In the second, we move onto hydrogen conversion, the gas mains replacement programme and returns for investors.
Energy workers have a widespread lack of faith in their employer's workforce resilience plans, according to a survey carried out by the union Prospect of its members in the sector. The poll raises concerns about social distancing and whether companies are moving quick enough to halt non-essential work.
Eon's adoption of the Kraken platform will see millions of customers migrated onto the system. One industry insider believes this could be a signal to other large players to enter the market.
Npower has reported a sharp decline in earnings during 2019 after customers continued to leave the supplier in droves. Meanwhile, Eon has announced plans to create a new energy company called Eonnext that will combine the residential and SME customers of both companies.
Ofgem has selected Bulb to absorb 9,000 domestic customers and a small number of non-domestic customers held by the Hampshire-based company, which ceased trading last week.
The incoming chief executive joins from his own consultancy and has previously worked for Channel 4. Incumbent CEO Sacha Deshmukh will step down in March and Smart Energy GB’s director of finance and operations Alistair Gibbons will be acting as interim until the new chief executive joins in May.