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700,000 customers switched

Shell turns green in major push on renewables market

Shell Energy
Shell has become a major electricity supplier   Royal Dutch Shell is switching all its household customers to renewable electricity and is seeking to become the world’s biggest electricity supplier. TheRead More

Export potential

Scotland urged to drive hydrogen-powered revolution

Prof Ronald MacDonald
A breakthrough in renewables technology could see Scotland develop a new source of energy supply with huge export potential. Scientists in Australia have found a way to store and exportRead More

Call for investment

North Sea needs £200bn to maintain production level

Maersk oil field
The North Sea will need £200 billion of investment between now and 2035 and continued collaboration to extend its production life, according to a trade body which expects exploration toRead More

Ofgem hands accounts to Perth firm

SSE offers stability to 17k Brilliant Energy customers

gas, Ofgem, price caps
SSE is to take on Brilliant Energy’s 17,000 domestic customers which last week became the latest UK supplier to collapse. Ofgem announced that customers would switch to the Perth utility whichRead More

Big questions ahead

What would ‘no deal’ Brexit mean for the gas industry?

Flogas (website)
It’s fair to say that no one currently knows what the landscape is going to look like after 29 March – when the UK is due to leave the EU.Read More

Concern over commitment

Demand for ‘level playing field’ as subsidised rivals win deals

Pat Rafferty
Pat Rafferty: ‘We were promised a ‘Saudi Arabia of Renewables’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Trade unions are furious that lucrative contracts for offshore wind farms have been awarded to overseasRead More

Workers stage walk-outs

North Sea strikes called as redundancy notices issued

Total Elgin-Franklin platform
The Elgin-Franklin platform is among those targeted for strikes   Oil workers are to stage a series of walkouts after two companies issued redundancy notice amid a dispute over changingRead More

£2bn spending plan

ScottishPower unveils biggest ever investment in UK

Whitelee wind farm
ScottishPower will spend up to £2 billion in the UK this year, the company’s biggest ever investment in the country in a single year. The announcement came as ScottishPower updatedRead More

Waiting for decarbon plan to be revived

SSE cuts earnings forecast after ruling on green subsidy

Ferrybridge (SSE)
The scheme was designed to tackle carbon emissions (pic: SSE)   Energy giant SSE has downgraded its annual earnings forecast following a European court ruling against UK government support forRead More

Deal with private equity firms

Total lining up £1bn sale of North Sea gas field stake

Total at Laggan
Two private equity firms are expected to acquire a stake in the giant Laggan-Tormore gas field in a £1 billion deal with French operator Total. The sale to Albion EnergyRead More