The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
• Plan to boost competition and cut consumers' bills • Suppliers would be forced to divest power stations The Conservative party is drawing up radical plans to break up the "Big Six" energy companies in an attempt to increase competition and reduce customers' bills, setting the Tories on a collision course with the industry. Greg Clark, the shadow secretary for energy and climate...
Contracts For Difference (CFDs) (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The CPI data yesterday in the UK demonstrated that inflation is likely to gain momentum over the near term. The headline annualised rate increased to 1.5% from 1.1% which was a little higher than the consensus expectation which stood at 1.4%. The figure was higher than expected due to the impact of food inflation. With the prospect of vat returning to 17.5% and with the energy price comparatives starting...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
GALWAY, IRELAND (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC: SSEZY) (SSE) (Perth, Scotland) has announced that it may take two years to get the company's damaged Glendoe Hydropower Plant up and running again. Power generation at the plant, which opened in July, was halted in August after a rockfall partially blocked the main tunnel...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
GALWAY, IRELAND (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Dong Energy (Copenhagen, Denmark) may have dropped out of the U.K.'s carbon capture and storage (CCS) race last week, but the U.K. is about to get a new entrant in the shape of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (OTC: SSEZY) (SSE) (Perth, Scotland). The power and gas company has announced that it plans to build...
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
November 16-23 This week’s news round up includes: US Offshore Wind Collaborative, Cape Wind, RWE Innogy, Scottish and Southern Energy, GE, E.ON, Pavilion Energy Resources, First Wind, Lost Creek project, Siemens, British Wind Energy Association and the European Investment Bank. read more Visit the original post at: Wind Power News
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Virgin, Stagecoach and Yahoo among firms calling for measures to address economic dislocation from a sudden rise in oil prices An industry organisation, which includes Virgin and Yahoo among its members, has called on the government to "urgently" reassess its dismissive view about the potential threat and impact of oil shortages. The call from the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy...
Arts Reader (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/XYEWFF/7O9DS/MZ7S4V/JEY9K/ Energy Thursday November 12 2009 FT.com - Energy Vattenfall drops plan for nuclear investment The state-owned Swedish power group has put on hold the sale of its domestic electricity distribution business and invest...
BBC NEWS | Douglas Fraser's blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
It's not an easy sell for one of Britain's leading utilities: a strong or at least "solid" profits signal, along with a warning of those gas bills back on the rise again . Utilities are easy targets for squeezed customers and tabloid headline writers. But Ian Marchant, chief executive of Scottish and Southern Energy, is unapologetic. Profit expectations are strongly up, yes - but that's...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Scottish and Southern Energy will try to hold its retail prices unchanged for as long as possible
The engineer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Scottish and Southern Energy is seeking consent to develop the UK’s largest carbon-dioxide-capture trial facility at its Ferrybridge coal-fired power station near Castleford in Yorkshire.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Watchdog rules marketing misled consumers over a claims about financial and green benefits to community A marketing campaign for a wind farm project, backed by Scottish and Southern Energy, has been banned by the advertising watchdog for misleading consumers over claims about financial and green benefits to the community. A mailout by Viking Energy promised to "harness Shetland's natural resources...
Bitterwallet (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
To be honest, we don’t know too much about Atlantic Electric and Gas – apparently they’re part of Scottish and Southern Energy, and the UK’s largest generator of renewable electricity. Nope, still haven’t heard of them, which is why we’d check twice before swapping our utilities to them, especially after the gas bill that Bitterwallet [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
GALWAY, IRELAND (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- After losing out on the original auctions for potential nuclear sites in the United Kingdom, a consortium led by GDF Suez (EPA: GSZ) (Paris, France) is back in the race following the £70 million ($115.5 million) purchase of a site near Sellafield in Cumbria. The consortium, comprising GDF Suez, Iberdrola...
The engineer (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has sold 470 acres north of the existing site at Sellafield in Cumbria to a consortium formed earlier this year by Iberdrola, GDF Suez, and Scottish and Southern Energy.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
A third potential new nuclear operator has entered the UK market, taking total proposals for new nuclear power stations up to 16 gigawatts of electricity. A consortium of GDF SUEZ SA, Iberdrola SA and Scottish and Southern Energy Plc has secured an option to purchase land for the development of a new nuclear power station at [...]
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