The new 'super regulator' being set up to monitor the water sector should have a seat on each company’s board, an industry expert has suggested. Ian Barker, honorary professor at the University of ...

The government has a comms challenge when it comes to Clean Power 2030. But Centre for Net Zero senior policy adviser Andy Hackett argues that the real difficulty lies in addressing structural issues ...

Almost £1 million of costs paid to consultants by the Data Communications Company (DCC) has been branded as unacceptable by Ofgem. The energy regulator is proposing to disallow almost £31 million of ...

National Grid has been granted hundreds of millions of pounds to accelerate the delivery of its Sea Link interconnector, deemed essential for achieving clean power by 2030. It is one of a nine ASTI ...

The government has been accused of “washing its hands” of disputes between offshore wind farm developers. It comes after the Department of for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) ignored pleas from ...

Wind farms should be charged for the constraint costs they cause to encourage operators to take action to avoid them, a new report has suggested. Stonehaven said this ‘polluter pays’ approach would ...

Ofgem has given preliminary approval to requests by National Grid for early construction funding for six major grid upgrades. They include the controversial Norwich to Tilbury line, which is needed to ...

Leakage levels in the water sector are at their lowest in two decades, the latest industry figures have revealed. Yet around a fifth of supply is still being lost, with Thames Water and United ...

Severn Trent is calling on suppliers to have their say on the northern section of a major water transfer scheme between the Midlands and the South East. The company will reveal its plans for the £200 ...

Eclipse Power Group has agreed a deal to acquire Vattenfall’s independent network distribution operator (IDNO). Eclipse, a subsidiary of an Octopus-managed fund, will take control of Vattenfall ...

The Environment Agency has urged water companies to take action and has warned of the “precarious” drought situation facing England. If this winter is drier than normal, it added, England will ...

A group dedicated to plugging the looming skills gap in the water sector has been established by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The group will meet quarterly to ...