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    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Ofgem explores raising energy bills as debt to British suppliers hits £2.6bn

      Regulator wants to avoid a repeat of 2021/22 market rout when wholesale gas prices soared

    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      We’re back to a Big Six energy market. So now what?

      A decade of reform has left the UK with a power system in danger of failing on competition, innovation and fairness

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      UK energy
      Ofgem clamps down on forcible installation of energy pre-payment meters

      Watchdog says new rules will protect vulnerable customers

      A smart meter in use in London
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Utilities
      Energy supplier seeks to overturn new financial resilience rule

      Utilita says Ofgem’s planned capital buffer requirement will make ‘survival in the market difficult’

      Utilita has asked the Competition and Markets Authority for permission to appeal against the rule
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Ofgem announces new British energy cap of £1,923

      Limited cut still means average annual household bills will be about £600 higher than before Ukraine war

      Electricity pylons, in mist, stretching into the distance
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Morgan Stanley
      Ofgem fines Morgan Stanley £5.4mn for WhatsApp violations

      UK energy regulator says US bank failed to keep records of traders’ discussion of energy deals on personal phones

      Morgan Stanley London headquarters
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Regulator toughens rules on British energy suppliers’ finances

      Ofgem to introduce new capital requirements in order to ensure companies can withstand market shocks

      Power lines near a home
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      UK energy
      Citizens Advice accuses Ofgem of failing to act in consumers’ interests

      Independent watchdog criticises plans to raise energy supplier’s margins in October as ‘not properly justified’

      Night time illuminated housing with power pylons
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      UK energy
      Ofgem tells energy suppliers to put financial stability before dividends

      Utilities warned to ‘behave responsibly’ and ensure they are properly capitalised

      A person holds a smart energy meter
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      UK economy
      UK regulator to crack down on electricity generators making ‘excessive profits’

      Ofgem proposes reform after finding some power station owners held back supplies to secure higher prices

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    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      Meddling with regulators’ duties is an unfortunate UK failing

      Watchdogs are burdened with new social policy obligations, with mixed results

    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      UK energy
      Ofgem to be legally obliged to push for ‘net zero’

      Amendment to UK energy bill will require regulator to formally adopt 2050 emissions target

    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      UK economy
      Why Britain’s households should expect energy bills to remain high

      Wholesale prices are still well above the average before the war in Ukraine

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      LexUK energy
      UK energy suppliers: higher margins will keep up heat even as bills drop Premium content

      Expect anger at the sector’s finances to take a long time to burn out

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    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      UK energy
      Energy bills unlikely to hit pre-crisis levels for 2 years, Britain’s regulator says

      Comments come as Ofgem announces amount paid by a typical household for gas and electricity is set to drop to £2,074 from July

      A smart energy meter
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      UK energy
      Ofgem wants your energy supplier to make more money (update)

      Regressive taxation for a brighter future

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      UK politics
      UK competition tsar calls for crackdown on utilities ‘ripping off’ customers

      Shareholders in water and energy monopolies should receive steady but unspectacular returns, says government adviser

      A smart meter in a kitchen
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Chris Skidmore
      It is time Ofgem rose to the challenge of upholding net zero

      New technologies are being hampered by slow, ponderous bureaucracy and an antiquated approach to grid connections

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Drax Group PLC
      Drax faces probe over sustainable biomass claims

      Ofgem commissions external audit into whether energy company complied with UK rules

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Nathalie Thomas
      Action on prepayment energy meters doesn’t go far enough

      Ofgem’s updated code of practice for suppliers on forcibly installing the devices is missed opportunity

      An elderly woman using a quantum key prepayment gas meter to check the amount of credit remaining
    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Ofgem tightens UK guidelines for forced prepayment meters

      Campaigners say measures fall short, call for ban on practice to protect those over 85 or with severe health conditions

      A customer uses a prepayment gas smart meter outside a house in Cardiff
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      Budget 2023: what it means for your money

      Moves to boost tax breaks on pensions, ease childcare costs and support household energy bills

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      UK companies
      UK businesses urge energy watchdog to act on suppliers’ bad behaviour

      Institute of Directors tells Ofgem to ‘secure a well-functioning market’

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    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      UK energy
      Treasury looking at U-turn on planned cut to UK energy subsidies

      Hope for action on preventing fresh spike in household bills with room for manoeuvre in Budget

      A kettle and a power smart meter
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      UK energy
      UK energy regulator lowers household price cap

      Consumers will still pay more from April as government reduces subsidies

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