SSE Reassures Micro-Businesses On Back Billing
SSE has given micro-businesses reassurance on back billing.
SSE has reassured micro-businesses saying that where they have been under billed due to a genuine billing error, SSE will accept full responsibility and as a result will not issue a “back bill” to a micro-business for a period greater than 12 months.
Utility Exchange reported a year ago that Consumer Focus warned that thousands of small ...
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Small Businesses Must Be Energy Efficient
Small businesses must work harder to be energy efficient according to the Vice President of the European Commission.
Antonio Tajani said small businesses must work harder to make themselves energy and resource efficient to ensure environmental policies don’t fail. Tajani’s comments came as the result of the first in depth analysis of how smaller businesses affect climate change and targets for pollution.
If small businesses work ...
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Samsung Invests In Yorkshire CCS Project
The Korean giant, Samsung Construction & Trading has taken a 15% stake in a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in South Yorkshire.
Samsung has taken a 15% stake in 2Co Energy’s CCS Don Valley power plant project in South Yorkshire. This is the second investment the company has made in UK energy projects this year after it announced a £100m wind turbine plant in ...
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RWE npower & E.ON Stop Nuclear Power Projects
RWE npower has announced that it won’t develop new nuclear power projects in the UK with E.ON.
RWE npower and E.ON created a joint venture called Horizon to develop and build new nuclear power plants in the UK. However, only weeks after the UK’s oldest nuclear power station at Oldbury was shut down, as reported by Utility Exchange, RWE npower has announced that after ...
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Exclusion Zone Around Total’s North Sea Gas Leak
Exclusion zones are now in place around the Elgin platform in the North Sea where gas is still leaking.
Utility Exchange reported yesterday that workers had been evacuated from the Elgin rig in the North Sea after a serious gas leak. There’s now an exclusion zone and Shell has evacuated two rigs close to the Elgin platform.
The shut down at the Elgin platform has ...
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Total Evacuates North Sea Gas Rigs After Leak
The oil giant Total has evacuated two North Sea gas rigs after a gas leak was discovered yesterday.
Over 200 people have been evacuated from the Total E&P offshore platforms after a gas leak was discovered yesterday. The platforms are about 150 miles off the coast of Aberdeen.
Initially all non-essential personnel were taken off the Elgin platform and the nearby Rowan Viking drilling rig. Nineteen ...
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BP To Start Deepwater Drilling Off Shetland
BP has been given permission for deepwater drilling off the coast of Shetland.
BP is set to start deepwater drilling for oil off the coast of Shetland after being given the go-ahead by the Government yesterday.
The oil giant will begin drilling the North Uist well about 78 miles north west of the Shetland Islands. The well depth will be around 1,300m.
Deepwater drilling has been controversial, ...
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Chancellor Confirms Gas Role In UK Energy Security
In his Budget speech yesterday the Chancellor confirmed that gas would play a major role in the UK’s energy security.
In his Budget speech yesterday the Chancellor announced new plans to encourage gas exploration and confirmed the UK’s continued reliance on gas. Last weekend Mr Osborne said “Gas is a reliable, affordable source of energy. We need to recognise that gas will be a vital ...
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Inflation Falls To 3.4%
UK inflation fell to 3.4% in February with lower gas and electricity bills helping to bring the Consumer Price Index (CPI) down.
In January inflation was at 3.6% but lower gas and electricity bills have helped inflation figures to fall further.
Utility Exchange reported earlier this year that the Big Six energy companies had cut electricity and gas prices after increasing them last summer. ...
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Business Electricity Costs To Rise Over Next 20 Yrs
New research suggests businesses face huge increases in their energy bills and in particular their electricity costs, over the next 20 years.
New research by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) suggests that hotter summers and more extreme weather in general means businesses face increases in their energy bills over the next 20 years.
Businesses occupying commercial premises will end up using more electricity as ...
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