Legal action threats to Ofgem over price cap rise Ofgem‘s brand new price cap and its effect on customers may shortly be challenged in UK courts. Not-for-profit organisation Good Law Project & campaign group Fuel Poverty Action has called on the energy regulators to carry out an “impact assessment” before putting in…

UK developing a non-carbon prison The development of what is described as the UK’s 1st ‘smart prison‘ will commence in autumn 2022. The government has signed a £400m contract with construction firm Kier to build the Category C facility in Full Sutton, East Yorkshire. The company stated that it has a goal to…

The Govt & CMA are Fuelling Inflation: Competition and Markets Authority is not fit for purpose if they can’t see the blindingly obvious — PETROL and DIESEL prices at the pumps should be at the very least 15p to 20p per litre lower. — Between June 1st and August…

Hosepipe ban to be introduced next week People living in Cornwall and parts of Devon will have to cut down their water use from next Tuesday as South West Water will give out a “temporary” hosepipe ban. The region’s first in 26 years follows the official admission of the largest drought since…

EU declines VAT exemption on German gas levy Europe is hoping the new gas levy Germany is announcing for all gas consumers not have “unintended consequences”. It is hoped that this new tax will give accsess for the country to offset the soaring gas import prices caused by the cuts of Russian…

ACWA Power on quarterly & semi-annual finance: — Consolidated net profit attributable to equity holders of the parent for the first six months reached SAR542 million, a 21% increase year-on-year. — Operating income before impairment loss and other expenses for the same period at SAR1,153 million increased by 9%…

District cooling is really hot: There is a great deal of interest within many energy companies to pursue a new investment or expand their existing investment in district cooling. …

Renewables investments lower price projection: Cornwall Insight’s latest — GB Power Market Outlook to 2030 — has shown greater investment in renewables by nations across the continent, which has resulted in lower price projections in GB from 2024 up until 2030. This is compared with our first report, published three…

Top weather may cause socioeconomic imbalance: Extreme weather events could, though its rippling effects, cause the destablisation of the socioeconomic system. PLoS Climate’s latest research found a correlation between extreme events and the disruption of interconnected sectors, with the recent heatwaves that cause droughts in some areas being the most recent…