Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are busy consigning past positions to the scrapheap of unkept promises. Harris was for banning fracking, but noticing oil and gas-rich Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, she isn’t. She was for open borders, but noticing border state Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, she now favours a bill providing millions of dollars for…
Businesses across the UK face a “cliff edge” on October 1 as suppliers are refusing to renew their fixed-rate energy contracts, leaving them on expensive and unpredictable floating tariffs. Other companies have been asked for deposits of hundreds of thousands of pounds, or even millions, to secure a deal. About 70 per cent of firms…
The energy regulator has admitted there is no guarantee that Octopus Energy will repay almost £3 billion that it owes the taxpayer after taking on Bulb, the failed supplier. Jonathan Brearley, Ofgem’s chief executive, described Octopus — which is lossmaking and which became Britain’s third biggest energy supplier after the Bulb takeover — as being…
Ministers have been “horrified” to discover that energy suppliers force-fitted prepayment meters in customers’ homes more than 94,000 times last year. The figures emerged in the wake of a Times investigation after Grant Shapps, the energy security secretary, ordered the companies to reveal the extent to which they had been breaking into homes and force-fitting…
Introducing the King’s Speech in July, Sir Keir Starmer said Labour wanted to “take the brakes off Britain”. The monarch laid out 40 bills — the most included in such an address since under the last Labour administration in 2005 — on matters ranging from housebuilding to workers’ rights. Together they formed the outlines of…
Amid our August sunshine, Sureserve is an unseasonal stock. It does dull but important work in the energy sector, such as servicing gas and electricity supplies in social housing, installing smart meters, gas compliance work, and making sustainable energy plans for hospitals, libraries and crematoria. Sureserve is a bit of a mishmash, with tentacles in…