Articles

The current UK energy crisis illustrates our reliance on volatile fossil fuel markets. However, in every crisis, there’s an opportunity. Let’s find out more. 2021 has not been a great year for the UK energy industry. Wholesale gas prices are soaring,  up 250% since the start of the year. Two million consumers have had to switch suppliers due to their chosen supplier going out of business. Perhaps most importantly, when the government revises its six-monthly

After initial reluctance, energy providers are beginning to harness the potential of Virtual Power Plants. The energy industry has been talking about Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) for several years. However, implementation of the ideas around VPPs has been slow. It’s only now that there are some large-scale real-world examples, providing a raft of benefits to suppliers, customers and our planet.  In this article, we’ll look at what Virtual Power Plants are and how they work.

More people are charging their electric vehicles as they shop, but public EV charging will struggle to reach critical mass until certain problems get solved. Charging your electric vehicle while you shop is becoming more and more popular. The supermarket giant Tesco recently announced that its car park charging network had completed 500,000 free charges, equivalent to ten million miles of driving. However, if charge as you shop (or eat, or watch) is going to

The world’s biggest energy companies are abandoning oil rigs in favour of wind farms and solar panels. The energy industry is seeing an increase in investment activity going into 2021 after a challenging 2020. However, many traditional energy giants are putting their money into projects you wouldn’t necessarily expect them to. This month, news emerged of BP paying an astronomical amount for the rights to build two large-scale wind farms in the Irish Sea. Companies

One of the biggest energy suppliers in the UK has launched a new product designed to help them compete against new entrants to the marketplace. What is it, and will it work? The giants of the energy supply sector were never going to sit on their hands and let smaller companies take away their business forever. British Gas and its parent company, Centrica, have taken the initiative to lure back some of those lost customers,