Centrica
Europe
Centrica announces job cuts after profit drop
Centrica will cut around 4,000 jobs in the next few years as the company recorded a ‘significantly reduced profit’ in its business supply division.
Coal Fired
Battery storage a winner in UK auction awards
The progress being made by battery storage technology was indicated by the awarding of contracts by the National Grid to several such projects in its capacity market auctions last week.
Europe
Group of six utilities call for stronger ETS
Six major energy companies have come together to call on the European Union to develop a more effective emissions trading system or ETS.
Big Data
Centrica boss says era of ‘Big Six’ over
The chief executive of British Gas owner, Centrica, Iain Conn, says that the era of domination by the big six energy companies in the UK has come to an end.
Asia
How GE’s Alstom acquisition is helping power plant owners
GE’s recent acquisition of Alstom’s Power & Grid businesses gives the company a more robust global business presence at a time when the world is expected to invest a projected $17 trillion in power and grid technologies over the next 20 years to help develop more sustainable modern economies and improve the quality of life for the world’s population.
Equipment & Technology
Backup gas-fired plant planned at existing UK plant site
UK utility Centrica has proposed building a new gas-fired backup power plant at the site of the existing 360 MW Peterborough power station.
Energy Efficiency
UK’s ‘Big Six’ utilities avoid enforced power generation-supply split
An 18-month investigation into the UK’s energy market has confirmed consumers were overcharged a total of £1.7bn but not recommended splitting the country’s ‘Big Six’ utilities as a remedy to failings in the market.
Gas & Oil Fired
Centrica chiefs urge UK government to change capacity market design
Centrica’s top management have used the occasion of their annual results announcement to call on the British government to re-draw the country’s capacity market scheme.
Australasia
Centrica preparing £1bn bid for Irish power company
Centrica is preparing a bid of more than €1bn for Viridian, Northern Ireland’s biggest power company, according to people familiar with the deal.
Europe
EDF planning asset sale according to French news report
Les Echos newspaper in France has reported that state utility EDF is considering selling assets worth $6.45bn later this year.
