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Energy retail sector would be better handled in public ownership

Labour’s shadow minister for energy spoke passionately to delegates at the energy conference about the party’s ambitious vision for the energy industry

The UK’s entire retail energy market is broken and in need of an urgent fix

One factor behind the merger is privatisation and the move away from the big six suppliers to smaller ones […]

This bolt from the blue will have left many of the companies’ employees feeling decidedly anxious

Australian company Macquarie’s successful bid for the National Grid’s distribution business has been greeted with dismay today (Thursday) by public services union UNISON. The union – which has thousands of members working in the utilities sector – says when Macquarie ran Thames Water, the end result was poorer customer service, higher bills, massive debts, complex […]

Commenting on the announcement from Npower today (Tuesday) that 2,400 jobs are to go, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “At the weekend Npower employees had to find out from the media that their jobs were on the line. Today’s poor results mean yet more uncertainty for the workforce. “Npower bosses are compounding the anxiety […]

But that was the reality for many Npower workers this weekend who heard about changes at their company the way the rest of the country did – […]

"NPower has been in trouble for some time thanks to poor decision-making at the very top, and workers are now paying the price. The company's failure to invest properly in new systems has left it […]