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Centrica’s British Gas has to pay $9.4 million
Centrica's British Gas, the focus of an anti-trust examination next to Britain's other big energy companies, will pay approximately 5.6 million pounds ($9.4 million) to fix past errors which had stopped business clients from changing suppliers in the period between 2007 and 2012, as declared on Thursday by Energy watchdog Ofgem.
read more... 11/04/2014
Britain’s free energy market threatened by pricing investigation
An analysis of potential price complicity by British energy suppliers will probably destabilize the market structure that has aided them to become more important than their European competitors.
read more... 09/04/2014
UK: The Big Six energy firms increased their profits five fold
According to informations from Ofgem, UK’s energy regulator, the Big Six energy suppliers saw their profit margins in the supply of gas and electricity increase to 4.3% in 2012, in comparison to 2.8% a year before. The big six operators made £53 profit per household customer last year, compared to £30 in 2011.
read more... 26/11/2013
Spain envisages 2.7 billion euro cuts in subsidies
Spain's government intends to cut subsidies for renewable-energy suppliers and increase electricity bills as part of widespread reforms to its energy policy. The government had announced a series of actions intended at reducing the country’s tariff deficit, which amount to more than 26 billion euro, and has been accumulated as a result of a discrepancy between generating costs and electricity prices for consumers for a long period.
read more... 09/08/2013
Spain announced 2.7 billion euro cuts in subsidies
Spain's government intends to cut subsidies for renewable-energy suppliers and increase electricity bills as part of widespread reforms to its energy policy. The government had announced a series of actions intended at reducing the country’s tariff deficit, which amount to more than 26 billion euro, and has been accumulated as a result of a discrepancy between generating costs and electricity prices for consumers for a long period.
read more... 16/07/2013