Two years after the first wave of market liberalisation in France, a total of 46% of French eligible clients (power and gas clients included) still do not realise they can switch suppliers, a joint...

A total of 48% of UK power installations under the ETS were long in 2005, according to a detailed sector summary published on Tuesday by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...

Czech grid operator CEPS announced on Tuesday that it will offer an additional 300-400 MW of cross-border capacity on the Polish and Austrian borders from February onwards, following a legal ruling...

Talks on a possible merger between Dutch utilities Essent and Nuon are “in a serious stage”, a spokeswoman for Essent told Heren Energy on Tuesday. “We will see if we can come to a result in the near...

E.ON Ruhrgas Norge has qualified for operatorship on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has announced. In the APA 2006 licensing round, German gas...

The European Commission took further legal steps against the Spanish government on Wednesday to force it to rescind outstanding conditions placed on German utility E.ON’s EUR 36.5 billion bid for...

A French green umbrella association Alliance pour la Planète is calling on consumers to turn their lights off for five minutes on Thursday between 19:55 and 20:00 CET — a move that could interfere...

EEX is to expand its provision of power production data, in a bid to further increase transparency in the domestic market, the Leipzig-based energy bourse announced on Wednesday.The exchange will,...

The Hungarian Energy Office is increasing the average wholesale price of power for the regulated market by 9.1% from 1st February, from HUF 13.02/kWh to HUF 14.20/kWh (EUR 55.21/MWh). However, this...

Italy’s gas consumption fell 16% to 10.98 billion cubic metres (Gm3) in December, compared with the same month in 2005.Gas demand for the entire year softened just 2.1% to 84.42 Gm3 from 86.27 Gm3 in...

Italy’s power network operator, Terna plans to invest an additional 35% in its capital expenditure — between 2007-2011 — over its previous strategic plan for 2006-2010, the company announced on...

Italy’s head of the Ministry for Economic Development, Pierluigi Bersani, has attacked the media speculation surrounding Eni and Snam Rete Gas.Bersani said he had not sent a letter to Brussels about...

Norwegian reservoir levels were down by 2.8 percentage points, to 61.1% fullness in Week 4, according to the latest data from the Nordic power exchange, Nord Pool. Although they are 3.6 percentage...

For the first time in six years, gas and electricity customers at UK multi-utility Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) have been told their tariffs will finally come down sometime “within the next few...

Spanish power company Union Fenosa will add an extra 1,750 MW of installed capacity in Spain during 2007, according to a company statement released on Wednesday.The majority of new capacity — 1,600...

The Spanish industry ministry has fixed a maximum price of 1.7555 cents/kWh for natural gas used as a raw material (the CMP) in February. This marks a decrease of 9.2% on the 1.9333 cents/kWh maximum...

Chemicals manufacturer Ineos ChlorVinyls has submitted an application to the UK government to build an energy from waste combined heat and power (CHP) plant at its Weston Point facility in Runcorn,...

Following Tuesday’s meeting between Gazprom’s c.e.o. Alexei Miller and the Ukrainian minister of fuel and energy, Yuri Boyko, Gazprom said that price calculations for gas supplied to Ukraine in...

Victoria Oil and Gas, the AIM-listed E&P company with activities in Russia and Kazakhstan, has announced a board room shake-up. Investors will hope the management changes arrest the decline of its...

Severn Power’s proposal for an 800 MW CCGT in South Wales was granted planning approval by Newport City Council on Wednesday. The £400 million (EUR 609 million) plant is still awaiting licensing...