Have you ever thought of the actual breakdown of your energy charges and why it can change so much year-on-year? The energy cost you pay for on your bill is a combination of a multitude of charges, each can change, and does, with each underpinned by its own market volatility. As a result the headline […]
Liquidity in Energy Markets
Liquidity refers to the relative volume and frequency that a trade occurs in a market. When we talk of liquidity in the energy markets it is usually commenting on a lack of it, or in other words the fact that there are too few generators needing to sell too little energy to too many suppliers […]
Tips for a More Energy Efficient Boiler
The £400m Question Businesses stand to save a collective £400m a year by taking simple actions to make their boilers run more efficiently, says the Carbon Trust. The organisation has found that heating and hot water accounts for more than a third of businesses’ energy consumption. In addition up to 60% of the carbon emissions from […]
Why Big Businesses Need to Beat the Switching Rush
1990: the year of the first connection of the Channel Tunnel and the first steps to a deregulated, privatised electricity market. The concept of only having the slow ferry as the habitual choice for Channel-hopping seems quaint now, but when it comes to the deregulation of the energy markets, some habits die-hard. The first segments […]
Business Juice Responds to Miliband Energy Price Freeze
CEO James Constant explains why Ed Miliband’s energy price freeze promise creates false hope and an unworkable solution in the continued struggle to create meaningful and executable energy policy. As an organisation focussed on improving energy market conditions for businesses we are working with the government to remove the worst excesses of business energy suppliers. […]
DECC Exposed, Potential Conflict of Interest
Department of Energy and Climate Change exposed in potential conflict of interest Most people would agree that when it comes to decision and policy making, there is merit in having people with relevant industry experience influencing the outcomes. However, not so much when the decision and policy makers are the Department of Energy and Climate […]
History Of Electricity Part 3
Electricity Prices In the third of our posts on the history of electricity, we’re tackling the issue that everyone cares about the most – price. 1921 – when electricity first started making its way into people’s homes on a mass scale, consumption was low, and electricity wasn’t cheap; it cost 1.03p/kWh, which might sound cheap, but […]
History Of Electricity Part 2
How Much Electricity We Use In the second of our posts on the history of electricity, we’re looking at our electricity usage over the last century: 1920 – in 1919, the Electricity Act was passed and the Electricity Supply Corporation was founded, paving the way for electricity in the home. In these early days, the average […]
History Of Electricity Part 1
What We Use To Make Electricity In the first of a series of posts on the history of electricity in the UK, we’re looking at the fuels used to generate our electricity, now and in the past. It’s about more than just fuel though – it tells us a lot about how technology and our […]
Scottish Power end contract rollover
Scottish Power complete the line-up to end contract rollover for the big six No sooner had the Federation of Small Businesses called upon Scottish Power to join the move to end automatic contract rollover for business energy contracts, they did just that, announcing that changes to their contracts will take place from April 2014 for […]