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EDF in the top of customers’ complaints
According to Consumer Focus watchdog, the major energy supplier, EDF has been named as Britain's most complained among power companies, mainly due to the implementation of a new billing system.
read more... 21/09/2011
Thames Water delivered 450 kW solar panels to British desalination plant
Thames Water, has commissioned 450 KW arrays of solar panels at its water desalination plant (Beckton), as a part of Britain’s biggest on-site solar power producer and industrial user situated on 150,000 m³/d area. According to the 25-year contract and worth £7 million, Ennoviga Solar Ltd, has created an investment company that will own and maintain the solar park, and will recover its investments by selling the green power produced to the water company.
read more... 09/08/2011
Fall in British offshore wind energy costs over the next decade
A recently released report by Britain’s largest wind and marine energy trade association shows a drop in prices for electricity generated from offshore wind power utilities. The whole-life cost of wind energy in UK is expected to be driven down by more than 15% between 2011 and 2022, while under auspicious conditions, the decrease in costs would reach as much as 33%.
read more... 01/07/2011
Ofgem proposes tougher reforms for major UK power companies
The energy watchdog Ofgem has launched a set of rigid market reforms for Britain's six major power companies; involving the auction of more than one fifth of the electricity they generate, in order to increase competition on the market.
read more... 23/06/2011
Scarcity in British wind farms
Britain has the lowest density of wind turbines among other European countries as compare to 1 turbine per 100 sq km in Britain, Denmark with 11 turbines, Germany and the Netherlands with 6, while Spain has 3.
read more... 22/06/2011