Domestic Energy News

Content in this article The Global Picture What is the Energy Price Cap? Why is the Cap Being Raised? What Can You Do? It’s hard to open a newspaper, turn on the news or listen to a phone-in radio station without coming across coverage and discussion of the dramatic rise in the cost of energy […]

The cost of natural gas in the UK has increased 420% in the last 12 months and this, along with environmental factors are affecting the production of electricity which has caused prices to sky rocket in recent months. This means that energy firms are changing their prices and creating new tariffs with higher prices without […]

A spotlight is being pointed at the energy industry at the moment. Customers are becoming more and more aware of the fall in wholesale energy prices and this is leading to an ever increasing level of customer complaints from those customers who are not seeing cuts in their energy bills. Spark Energy have been accused […]

Energy users will be required to pay £1bn in 2018 to keep power stations open. The National Grid did a capacity auction which ended at a price of £19.40 per KW – the agreed level of subsidy. EDF is one of the major expected winners but other firms which form the “Big Six” are also […]

The Scottish government has formally had an application from Global Energy Group to create a brand new harbour at Nigg on the Cromarty Firth. The proposal has been criticised by Cromarty Firth Port Authority (CFPA). Concerns have been raised by CFPA, which operates a harbour at Invergordon, that the new harbour would have control of […]