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Scottish Power has been appointed by Ofgem to take on the 130,000 domestic customers of failed power supplier Tonik Energy. Utility Week previously revealed that Scottish Power was in contention for Tonik’s customers.
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Ofgem has revealed the final amount of charges that have been deferred by network companies over a three-month period in response to Covid-19. In June three schemes were announced which allowed networks to put off up to £350 million worth of charges relating to gas transportation, electricity distribution and electricity transmission as a last resort. The schemes have now closed.
SSE is to remove qualification entry requirements for apprentices as part of a wider push to improve social mobility. Utility Week speaks to the company’s HR director John Stewart and former minister Justine Greening, who chairs the social mobility pledge, about the sector’s role in creating new green jobs and supporting the levelling up agenda.
Just days after Ofgem revealed the supplier owed £8.7 million in renewables obligations (RO) and feed-in-tariff payments, Tonik Energy was no more - by far the largest supplier to exit the market in 2020. But, the tale of a business failure days after the RO bills are announced is becoming a familiar one. Utility Week examines how it all went wrong - and who will pick up the pieces.
Pure Planet has announced a price increase due to the rise in wholesale costs as countries around the world emerge from the first phase of the coronavirus lockdown. Pure Planet co-founder Chris Alliot said in addition to the rise in wholesale prices, non-commodity costs, which make up a large part of energy bills, have also been going up.
Landis+Gyr has renewed its partnership with Calvin Capital in a deal it says will reduce the challenges faced by smaller energy suppliers in procuring smart meters. Under the new deal Landis+Gyr will provide SMETS2 smart meters to challenger energy brands which use Calvin Capital as their meter asset provider (MAP).
Six months into the pandemic and EDF Energy has had plenty of time to understand its impact on both its business and consumers. Managing director Philippe Commaret catches up with Utility Week and explains how his fears about the impact on the smart meter rollout have dissipated, how energy consumption patterns bode well for home workers and how a new service is helping customers with a smart meter better understand their usage.
In her latest exclusive column for Utility Week members, former Ofgem executive Maxine Frerk gives her view on the CMA appeals in the water sector. She examines what impact this is likely to have on RIIO2 and highlights areas of the CMA’s response that energy networks may want to study.
The Women in Utilities Network (WUN) has urged utility companies not to use the pandemic as an excuse to hide their gender pay gap data. The group called on the sector to publish data for 2019/20 despite government suspending the requirement to do so.