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[Published Tuesday 12 January 2021] Energy Saving Trust announced today, that 10 charities have been successful in securing over £2 million of funding in the latest round of the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme (Energy Redress Scheme). Managed and delivered by the Energy Saving Trust on beh...

[Published 14th December 2020] Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, comments on today’s publication of the Government’s Energy White Paper: "We welcome the government’s Energy White Paper which sets out an ambitious programme to build a fairer, greener energy system. Ofgem will continue to w...

[Published 16th December 2020] From September 2017 to March 2020, EDF Energy (Thermal Generation) Limited (EDF ETG) regularly sent misleading signals to the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) about the capabilities of its generation plant, Ofgem monitoring has found. EDF ETG submitted t...

[Published 17th December 2020] Ofgem has confirmed its methodology for setting the next price controls for Great Britain’s local electricity distribution networks, known as RIIO-ED2, which run for five years from April 2023. This follows last week’s confirmation of the major investment programmes f...

[Published 18th December 2020] Ofgem has published its annual report on the Warm Home Discount (WHD) showing that vulnerable customers benefited from over £348m of support from suppliers last winter (2). Suppliers paid £140 rebate to over 2.2 million vulnerable customers such as low income pensioner...

[Published 11 January 2021] The Changes to the domestic RHI Regulations notice requested industry views on: proposed changes to the ’12 month rule’ to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on certain consumers. This is the rule that accreditation applications to the scheme have to be made within 12 months...

[6 January 2021] The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Minister of State at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, will be giving the keynote speech on 26 January as part of the Electricity Storage Network (ESN) Annual Marketplace three-day event taking place on 26 - 28 January, 2021. T...

[Pubilshed 30 November, Updated 8 December 2020] We are seeking views on how we should design the proposed Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) scheme. The GHNF is a capital grant funding programme which is intended to help new and existing heat networks to move to low and zero carbon technologies. Its ob...

[Published 15th December, 2020] Ofgem have launched a short ‘Know your rights’ video on its social channels to explain the new winter energy protections that came into force on 15th December). Ofgem are publicising the protections through the following channels: Twitter https://twitter.com/ofgem/sta...

This consultation has now been extended until 8th January, 2020

[Published 24 November 2020] As part of the Accelerator Cities programme funded by EIT Climate-KIC, the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has launched an interactive map designed to showcase leading local authority policies and programmes which address domestic energy efficiency. The first is the Re...

Ofgem’s Strategy: Green, Fair Future Ofgem have announced a live online event for attendees to hear about their plans for the next year and beyond, and how they are transforming to deliver a green, fair future. The event will be held on the 15th December, 10:00 – 11:15. Speakers include Ofgem's CEO...

[Last updated 27 November 2020] Heat networks account for only a small proportion of UK heating systems. As a result, their locations were unrecorded and their operation was unregulated until 2014. The purpose of the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations (‘the Regulations’), which came int...

Thank you to all of you who have already responded to the consultation https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/improving-the-energy-performance-of-privately-rented-homes on improving the energy performance of privately rented homes in England and Wales. A friendly reminder to those who haven’t r...

More information: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/938539/NIS_Report_Web_Accessible.pdf?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--3n-Lsne1KiaP-OkdZ77xUu6yanBczqISi0FuPUUy3bC2jcixOrCbp3K6ZBKp1uLsYGa7U [Published November 2020] ...

For more information: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/ofgem-consults-covid-19-costs-energy-price-cap [Published 20 Nov 2020] Ofgem is consulting on proposals to amend the default tariff price cap’s ‘Adjustment Allowance’ from April 1 2021 to account for the impact of COVID-19 on th...

More information: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/ofgem-publishes-2020-annual-iteration-process-electricity-distribution-network-price-control [Published 27 Nov 2020] Ofgem has today published the results of the 2020 Annual Iteration Process (AIP) for electricity distribution netwo...

Further information: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8730/ This Library briefing note summarises the levels of fuel poverty across the UK, policies to address fuel poverty, and stakeholder comment on the issue. Fuel poverty is a devolved policy area, and is defined and me...

For more information visit: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8081/ This Library briefing paper provides a summary of the UK energy market, a breakdown of the components of energy bills, and details of concerns and reforms in the market, including the tariff cap. The UK Ene...

The ten point plan sets out the approach government will take to build back better, support green jobs, and accelerate our path to net zero. As the world looks to recover from the impact of coronavirus on our lives, livelihoods and economies, we have the chance to build back better: to invest in ma...