More than 2,500 people will die unnecessarily in England and Wales this week as a direct result of the cold weather, according to a forecast from the Faculty of Public Health and the Met Office. Each...

APX UK, the UK power exchange arm of the Dutch-based Amsterdam Power Exchange, said on Tuesday that it had acquired the business activities of the UK Power Exchange (UKPX) from OMHEX, the...

Centrica, the British multi-utility, has bought two adjacent wind farm sites from AMEC Investment Limited and Offshore Wind Power, it announced on Tuesday. The sites cost an initial cash...

British energy regulator Ofgem has announced that it is looking to alter the licence conditions of gas and electricity suppliers for direct selling and marketing activities.While the regulator...

Duke Energy Corp. has sold its 103- megawatt Compagnie Thermique du Rouvray power plant, in northwest France, to Courant CTR Holdings SAS for $79.7 million, as part of its plan to exit Europe. The...

Dr Otto Hasenkopf, technical head at German EnBW subsidiary EnBW Nuclear Power, will retire on 31st December. EnBW Nuclear Power board member Dr Udo Brockmeier will succeed Hasenkopf. Hasenkopf...

Emissions market analysis and consultancy company Point Carbon reports that the price of emission allowances for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) has doubled between trading first having been...

German power prices for private households have risen an adjusted 40% since 1980, according to energy industry association VDEW. VDEW calculates that an average three-person household with an annual...

German Ruhrgas has reached an out-of-court settlement with a state trustee, ending a dispute over the interpretation of a contractual clause concerning the valuation of the company, The Heren Report...

German federal state Hesse has set a 0.50-0.60 eurocent/kWh ceiling for 2004 power price rises charged by suppliers. Power suppliers had proposed an increase of up to 1.0%. The state said that the...

The Italian ministry for industrial activities (Ministero delle Attivita Produttive, or MAP) has published the method for allocation of import capacity for 2004, a spokeswoman for the ministry said...

Elsam said that its 265 MW Nordjylland B2 coal-fired plant would be taken offline from 11:00 on 21st December to 06: 00 on 5th January due to low consumption. Statkraft said that its 500 MW Rana...

The proposal is that Transco should have to publish price changes at least three months ahead to provide greater certainty to the market. It should also be required to publish indicative prices three...

Russian state power monopoly UES has approved a plan to split up its biggest regional unit, Moscow’s Mosenergo, as part of the restructuring of the electricity industry, newswires reported on Monday....

Russian power monopoly UES has introduced a ban on its workers to speak about the company to outsiders and has restricted comment to three people — the board chairman, his deputy and/or his press...

Germany’s federal supreme court (BGH) has ruled in favour of energy utility RWE against two rebel breweries that refused to recognise a 10% power price increase imposed on them. “This is a big...

Releasing information on its Q4 03 earnings, Shell says its figures for the period will include net charges of approximately $1.02 billion (£578 million), of which around 50% will be in the company’s...

Turkey’s state-owned gas company Botas will tender four billion cubic metres (Gm3) of its contract gas on December 26th from the Blue Stream pipeline, which carries Russian volumes via the Black Sea...

Austrian banks Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) and Österreichische Kontrollbank (ÖKB) are to join the Austrian power bourse EXAA with the aim of acting as brokers for industrial customers, a spokesman...

UK-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company Venture Production has completed the purchase of the remaining stakes in the Audrey, Ann and Alison fields from First Oil Expro for...