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UK: Ofgem to investigate five producers over capacity market auction
Britain's energy market regulator Ofgem has launched an investigation to see if five power producers gave false or distorted information about planning consents for several units that participated in a capacity auction last December.
read more... 22/05/2015
EC: GE – Alstom deal may cripple the major competitors in heavy-duty gas turbines business
EU antitrust regulators launched on Monday a full-scale investigation into General Electric’s €12.4bn (£9.1bn) bid for Alstom’s power equipment business.
read more... 24/02/2015
EU initiates exhaustive investigation into UK coal plant conversion
The European Commission has initiated a detailed inquiry into Britain's plan to utilize public funds to pay for the change of a coal plant at Lynemouth, northern England, to biomass, declaring it is concerned Britain may be paying excessively.
read more... 20/02/2015
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
European Commission to launch a formal investigation into Hinkley Point nuclear deal
A deal between the UK government and French energy giant EDF to build two nuclear plants at Hinkley Point in Somerset could be put under threat by the European Commission as it will open a formal investigation into British government subsidies that breach European competition rules.
read more... 04/12/2013