energy supply

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has kickstarted his flagship Energy for Londoners scheme with a series of new initiatives to boost local energy use in the capital.

Shell has agreed to purchase First Utility in a move which will see the petrol giant enter the UK domestic supply market.

Independent energy supplier So Energy has claimed to be the first in the UK to offer its customers the choice of where their energy is supplied from.

UPDATE: SSE and innogy owner nPower have confirmed that, subject to Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) approval, the two companies are to merge to create "a major new independent competitor in the energy and home services market".

Islington Council has partnered with Robin Hood Energy to launch London’s first municipal energy provider in more than a century.

Ecotricity has dramatically withdrawn its request to place founder Dale Vince and Electric Highway MD Simon Crowfoot on the board of its rival Good Energy just two weeks before the vote was due to take place.

Swedish state-owned energy giant Vattenfall has set its sights firmly on the so-called Big Six’s market share with the purchase of its own consumer supplier.

The London Assembly’s Environment Committee has thrown its support behind plans to expand the capital’s Energy for Londoners (EfL) scheme into a fully licensed, domestic electricity supplier.

Germany-headquartered utility innogy has backed a renewed investment in innovation to return it to growth after earnings fell 10% in the year following its IPO.