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All electricity contracts for October 2004 are now in place. The overall outcome of the round has been bad news for power consumers. The wholesale market increased alarmingly throughout summer [...]

As the price of oil gets bid up, so too does the price of energy traders. With hedge funds and investment banks falling over each other to get into anything [...]

Supply security is top of the issues list for politicians and industry professionals in the gas and electricity sectors. Unfortunately, not everyone knows what it means and understands that the [...]

Printers are being warned of steep rises in gas and electricity bills as several major energy providers announce price increases for both home and business users. British Gas is bringing [...]

Emissions cuts imposed on industry will drive companies out of the UK, hitting the economy without reducing global carbon dioxide output, heavy power users have warned. The warming from the [...]

by Trevor Dooley Power distributors were dismayed by the energy regulator's customer-pleasing initial distribution price control proposals this week, warning they would leave the industry short of the cash needed [...]

by Trevor Dooley The newly established team for small businesses at customer watchdog Energywatch came out guns blazing this week with attacks on the distribution companies to follow its earlier [...]

Rising energy prices are threatening the progress made in eradicating fuel poverty, a key campaigning charity in the sector warned last week. According to the latest government figures, just published, [...]

by Roger Milne Parliament was told this week that an Ofgem-commissioned report into recent power failures has been completed but could remain a secret for months while the regulator's investigation [...]

The latest official six-monthly assessment by the government and Ofgem of energy security issues has highlighted the large amount of consented generation capacity, chiefly Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) projects, [...]

by Trevor Dooley European energy traders have urged the region's regulators to force major sector players to make more pricing information available in a bid to galvanise sluggish markets. Traders' [...]

MPs last week pressed the government to be more vocal about the inevitability of rising energy bills as a result of increasing dependency on green power, central to energy policy. [...]

Power industry players have reacted with 'disappointment' to last week's review of the new electricity trading regime by the the public accounts watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO). The Consumers' [...]

April 2003 average 100kW-plus prices (p/kWh) Load Factor0-35%35-60%60-100%Total April 2003 energy only2.182.122.042.14 April 2002 energy only2.072.042.012.05 % change energy only5.31%3.92%1.49%4.39% April 2003 all-inclusive4.514.033.474.22 April 2002 all-inclusive4.403.943.444.12 % change all-inclusive*2.50%2.28%0.87%2.43% *All-inclusive [...]

by Zo Grainge Despite the setback from the suspension of its TXU Europe contract at a potential cost of pound sterling175 million, Scottish and Southern Energy's (SSE's) low-cost and growing [...]

Heavy industrial energy users have warned that proposals in last week's Energy White Paper could jeopardise the UK's competitiveness in global industrial markets. The Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) said [...]

Consolidated edison, saying its steam system has become unprofitable, is asking the state Public Service Commission to approve rate changes that critics say could increase costs for customers by up [...]

Domestic energy suppliers reacted coolly to claims this week that ex-monopoly suppliers of gas and electricity were exploiting loyal customers by charging them more than new customers. The claim came [...]

The UK, Swedish and German energy markets have all deregulated, and since last year Dutch customers have been able to change supplier to choose green energy. The big difference between [...]

by Heather Peacocke The graphs, right, demonstrate a customer's potential savings when switching to an alternative supplier within the Eastern Electricity Region. The comparisons are made against the incumbent, TXU [...]

Price is the main customer concern, regardless of how liberalised the utility market is, according to a pan-European survey commissioned by billing specialist SPL. The survey of domestic energy customers [...]

TXU has rejected parliamentary criticism of its proposals to introduce a surcharge for late payers, starting next month. The energy supplier plans to penalise customers who fail to pay their [...]

The nonconventional source fuel credit is going up 2.1 percent. The credit is $2.28 per barrel of oil [...]

Businesses in the energy industry experienced mixed results last year, which began on high commodity prices and robust drilling but steadily lost its luster. The number of rigs actively drilling [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK online energy price comparison service unravelit.com has launched a competition on its web site that offers the chance for energy consumers to win […]

by Roger Milne Parliament last week fired a broadside at government energy policy with a warning that the cost of meeting the current target for renewables by 2010 could prove [...]

The European Commission has raised the price thresholds determining when utilities have to put contracts out to tender under its public procurement rules. The thresholds vary by country and sector, [...]

The high costs of compressed natural gas (CNG) compared to clean-diesel are causing major headaches in North America from coast to coast, as Washington, D.C. Metro Transit Authority (WMATA) and [...]

Utility bill cramming has become an increasing problem in Ohio and state Rep. David Goodman, R-Bexley, wants to stop the practice and penalize the practitioners. Goodman's newly introduced legislation, H.B. [...]

If you buy or sell energy, at some point you will be at risk, so it makes sense to hedge. We're not talking about the kind of hedging that evades [...]

IN MOST PLACES, competition helps drive down prices in energy markets. But in Russia, the planned reform of huge monopolies, such as the gas giant, Gazprom, and the UES power [...]

Power markets often show coincident peaks in price and volume. That can make profit unusually volatile. FORCE EQUALS MASS TIMES ACCELERATION (F=MA). Any student of physics should know this equation. [...]

Customers of San Diego. Gas & Electric Co. may face a rate increase as high as 20 percent for their electricity - but it could have been worse. Once approved, [...]

San Diegans have received a reprieve from the possibility of rate hikes this fall. The California Public Utilities Commission delayed a decision, originally slated for Sept. 6, on a rate [...]

TRANSACTION PRICES Latest Month 6 months price * ago ago FERROUS METALS (truckload quantities, FOB production mills) Hot-rolled steel (Midwest, $/ton) 240 240 220 Cold-rolled steel sheet (Midwest, 320 334 [...]

Buyers' three-month price expectations COMMODITY DIFFUSION CATEGORY PERIOD UP DOWN SAME INDEX Paper products Aug 16% 22% 62% 47.0 Corrugated producta Aug 14% 29% 57% 42.5 Plastic resins Aug 17% [...]

Crude Oil. The average price of domestic crude oil at the wellhead was $23.37 per barrel in June 2001, 16 percent below the level of June 2000. The refiner acquisition [...]

Here's a switch: An electric utility that complains a proposed rate hike is too high. That's right, too high. That's what San Diego Gas & Electric Co. officials said in [...]

TRANSACTION PRICES Latest price * FERROUS METALS (truckload quantities, FOB producing mills) Hot-rolled steel sheet (Midwest, $/ton) 240 Cold-rolled steel sheet (Midwest, $/ton) 334 HD galvanized steel sheet (Midwest, $/ton) [...]

* ConEd Solutions is promising fixed-rate prices that are 3 cents per kilowatt-hour lower than the fixed rates it offered in June, or slightly more than 11 cents/kwh. The price [...]