In a small control room in a compressor station in Siberia, workers are staring at a mass of meters and computer screens, watching the flow of Russian gas from pipelines beneath the ground. They are waiting for a call from Gazprom in Moscow to tell them how much gas is needed today. With the flick… Continue Reading »
Read More →UK households are said to be responsible for a quarter of the UK’s total carbon emissions and the Energy Performance Certificate is the Governments latest step in attempting to change house-holders’ attitudes a greener home. TheRenewableEnergyCentre.co.uk today joined the debate surrounding the new Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) launching this year. The EPC’s are just one… Continue Reading »
Read More →Wholesale gas market development will continue at a rapid rate in Europe, particularly after July 2007 when the markets fully liberalise. However, research indicates that the prospects for the development of these markets will continue to show enormous variation across the EU. As market liberalization continues, the importance of wholesale gas markets in Europe is… Continue Reading »
Read More →Britain’s biggest electricity supplier has been accused of misleading its customers with a phoney price cut. Npower boasted it would cut its electricity prices by an average of 3% from the end of next month. But it emerged yesterday that about half of its 4m electricity customers will not see a single penny cut. The… Continue Reading »
Read More →Ofgem has published international network utility National Grid’s first consultation on UK energy supplies for winter 2007. The utility has reported that significant investment in new gas provisions should continue to ease the gas supply situation looking forward, but has warned against complacency. National Grid commented that while gas supplies from the North Sea are… Continue Reading »
Read More →Total U.K. gas supplies for winter 2007-2008 are seen rising 14.9%, or 52 million cubic meters a day, to 402 mcm/day as a string of new pipeline and liquefied natural gas imports projects come on stream, said U.K. gas and electricity network operator National Grid PLC Tuesday. The rise in imports is seen more than… Continue Reading »
Read More →Britain still faces gas supply uncertainty next winter because new import facilities do not guarantee delivery and demand could be much higher, network operator National Grid said on Tuesday. Britain sailed through an unusually warm winter very comfortably supplied with gas and without really testing its improved import infrastructure, National Grid said. But new pipelines… Continue Reading »
Read More →Oil struck its highest level of 2007 near 64 usd in London as tensions with Iran continued to stoke supply fears. Yesterday, Iran shunned another attempt by the UN to force the country to halt its uranium enrichment programme, heightening already volatile tensions and sparking supply fears. At 10.22 am, London Brent crude for May… Continue Reading »
Read More →More developments in a protracted takeover battle in the European energy industry gave investors in Scottish & Southern Energy pause for thought today. Germany’s Eon and a combination of Italy’s Enel and Spanish property group Acciona are fighting for control of Endesa, the Spanish utility. This morning Eon raised its bid for the third time… Continue Reading »
Read More →Oil prices rose above US$62 a barrel in Asian trading Monday on continued tensions between Iran and the West following Iran’s detention of British naval personnel. British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday called the Iranian seizure of the 15 sailors and marines “unjustified and wrong,” saying that London saw their situation as “very serious.”… Continue Reading »
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