Derby Toyota Reduces Business Electricity Costs With Solar Panels

Toyota in Derby has switched on its 17,000 solar panels which it hopes will reduce its business electricity bills and save energy. Utility Exchange reported back in June that the Toyota factory at Burnaston in Derbyshire was installing solar panels at a cost of £10 million. The green electricity will be used at the plant which currently makes the Auris, Auris Hybrid and Avensis cars. As business electricity ... More

Ecotricity Installs Electric Car Charging Points Across Motorway Network

One of the problems with electric cars is that they can only travel around 100 miles before they need re-charging but the first national motorway network of electric charging points has just opened across the country launched by Ecotricity. Ecotricity, the green energy supplier, has installed free solar powered electric power points at 12 Welcome Break service stations and hopes to install another 17 later in the year. Founder of ... More

Centrica, Shell & BP Announce Huge Profits While Consumers Face Price Hikes

Centrica yesterday announced profits of £1.3bn for the first half of the year and BP and Shell have also announced huge profits while consumers face rising energy and petrol prices. Centrica has blamed increasing wholesale prices, rising taxes and increased energy efficiency for the fact that profits were down 54% at British Gas while BP and Shell have benefitted from rising oil prices. According to the energy giant, residential customers ... More

Centrica Announces £1.3bn Profits While Customers Face Price Hikes

The owner of British Gas, Centrica, has today announced profits of £1.3 billion for the first half of the year only a few weeks after announcing huge gas and electricity price increases. Just weeks after announcing it was to increase gas and electricity prices, Centrica has announced over £1 billion in half year profits, which includes £270 million for its residential arm, British Gas. The news won’t go down well ... More

Ofgem Fines British Gas Record £2.5m

The energy regulator Ofgem has fined British Gas a record £2.5 million for the way it handles customer complaints particularly those involving small businesses. Ofgem found that British Gas had failed to reopen complaints when a customer thought the complaint had not been resolved. Ofgem said British Gas had failed to put in place adequate processes and practices for dealing with complaints from small businesses. British Gas did not provide ... More

First Welsh Solar Park Set To Begin Electricity Generation

The first solar park in Wales is set to start generating electricity at the Rhosygilwen estate in Pembrokeshire. Utility Exchange reported at the end of June that the biggest solar energy farm in Britain had started to generate renewable electricity and was supplying the National Grid. The Howbery Business Park in Oxfordshire is made up of 3,000 panels while the Rhosygilwen Solar Park, owned by Western Solar, is ... More

Win Free Business Electricity For A Year

Utility Exchange, the business energy price comparison site, has launched a new competition giving businesses the chance to win free business electricity for a year. With rising business electricity prices the competition could prove useful to any small and medium sized business, providing free business electricity for a year. The competition is easy to enter – it’s simply a matter of filling in a form with your business ... More

Energy Companies Urged To Compensate Energy Doorstep Mis-Selling

The Energy & Climate Change Committee has said that customers who have been mis-sold gas and electricity on the doorstep should be compensated by energy companies. MP’s on the committee said mis-selling should have been dealt with years ago and that energy companies should look to see if any of their customers have paid too much for their gas and electricity as a result. Ofgem said that 40% of those ... More

Rural Homes & Businesses Set To Get Cheaper Broadband

Rural homes and businesses could get cheaper broadband because Ofcom has capped BT’s wholesale prices to internet service providers (ISPs). Ofcom has told BT that it must cut prices to 12% below inflation every year until 2014, in areas where BT is the only wholesale provider. Ofcom said that as a result it expected ISPs in those areas to reduce prices to customers by the end of the year. BT ... More

Everything Everywhere Boss Steps Down After Just One Year

After just a year in the job, the chief executive of Everything Everywhere will stand down at the end of August for personal reasons. Tom Alexander became boss of Everything Everywhere when the company was formed by combining Orange and T-Mobile last year. Before taking the role with Everything Everywhere Mr Alexander was chief executive of Orange UK from 2008. He said “It's been my privilege to serve Everything ... More

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