Electricity and gas regulator Ofgem has reappointed all 11 firms on its E-Serve panel after exercising an option to extend its legal services framework for a further two years.
Not exact matches
The group also recommended that the government should «reinvigorate independent sector oversight with an appropriately resourced» Ontario Energy Board, the
regulator of the
electricity and natural
gas industries in the province.
National Grid today asked state
regulators to increase its delivery rates by $ 326 million a year for
electricity and $ 81 million for natural
gas.
Energy marketing firms trying to protect their ability to sell natural
gas and electricity to utility customers in New York are urging
regulators to begin closed - door settlement talks that could end their protracted battle over new energy sales standards.
The failure of the
gas and electricity regulators to agree how to improve matters demands government intervention but as this smacks of «policy» such action has not been forthcoming.
UK demand response aggregator Flexitricity has successfully secured
gas and electricity supply licences from
regulator Ofgem, giving the demand response aggregator the green light to enter the country's balancing mechanism.
Despite having Fair Tax Mark status, SSE lost marks in the Anti-Social Finance column for several reasons including criticisms of inflated prices
and profiteering levelled at all the «big six» energy providers, from Ofgem, the government
regulator for
gas and electricity markets.
In Arizona,
regulators voted for a nine - month pause on any new large
gas - fired power plants
and told the state's largest investor - owned utilities that their future plans relied too heavily on natural
gas and should include more wind
and solar,
electricity storage,
and energy efficiency.
UK
gas and electricity market
regulator Ofgem has made a «game changer» decision for UK energy storage, by confirming that solar farms are able to retain accreditation under the government Renewables Obligation (RO) when supplying
electricity to batteries.
This move follows on an increasing rejection of natural
gas infrastructure by California
regulators in favor of clean energy alternatives, as the state continues to burn less
and less
gas every year in its
electricity sector.
State
regulators want more farmers to reduce emissions with methane digesters, which capture methane from manure in large storage tanks
and convert the
gas into
electricity.
The reform process also includes establishing an independent
regulator, regulated access to distribution networks
and account unbundling in integrated
electricity and natural
gas utilities.
While nuclear, imported hydropower
and renewables made up more than half of the state's generation output in 2015,
regulators are concerned low - priced natural
gas generation would replace retiring nuclear plants in
electricity markets, raising emissions
and putting the goal in doubt.