The number of homeowners investing in solar panels has soared since the Government introduced a cash-back scheme to pay for the electricity they generate.
“We have received a file of evidence from Essex Police in relation to allegations involving Christopher Huhne and Vicky Pryce. This file will be reviewed under the code for Crown Prosecutors and a decision on whether to charge will be made in due course,” said a spokesman for CPS.
The police investigation began in March and the file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in order to be decided whether Huhne has committed the offences.
Philip Bennett, 40, who has never missed a payment, had unwittingly been underpaying for three years after innacurate meter readings.
British Gas has been fined £2.5m by the energy regulator Ofgem for failing to handle customer complaints correctly.
Research from the site found that 37 per cent believe the business energy market is more complicated than the home market, while 29 per cent stated that they find it more bureaucratic.
It urged the government and the energy industry to better engage with the public to explain underly
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The EU has pledged £6.4 million towards the project, which will generate green electricity from the coast of west Wales for homes and businesses in the local area.
Customers of Scottish and Southern Energy are being warned to expect their highest bills ever after the company announced a price hike.
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However, well before the minister had spoken both British Gas and ScottishPower had already raised prices well above inflation.
British Gas parent firm Centrica Energy's managing director, Mark Hanafin, called the ERM an 'important step' that will 'come at a cost'.
He said: "There remains much detail to resolve so that investors can have confidence that the tax and regulatory environment makes the UK energy sector a good place to invest.
This represents 5,386 tonnes of carbon and is the fifth highest reduction achieved across Government departments.
The Department for Education came top of the Whitehall table, with a 21.5 per cent reduction.
The department focused on managing its buildings better, including introducing time-schedules for air conditioning and heating and installing sensors so lights go off automatically when staff leave rooms.
PC power management was also installed to PCs which shuts desktops down automatically when not in use.
Michiel van der Voort, director for international and professional development at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, said the proposals "will make the scheme easier for businesses to understand and implement".
The institute is working to enable the IT industry to become more environmentally friendly, lowering its energy usage and carbon emissions.
Virtualisation is one thing which can help businesses become greener, as it allows them to place their data off-site, therefore using less energy on-site.
Commercial solar power could be the answer for many small to large business owners to curtail expenditure and even turn additional profit from producing electricity.
British wholesale gas prices rose on Monday afternoon after a drop in supply from a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal left the system short.
Within-day gas prices gained 0.60 pence to 56.35 pence per therm at 1635 GMT, while Tuesday gas rose 0.35 pence to 56.25 pence, after prices had fallen slightly on Monday morning.
A drop in flows from the Isle of Grain terminal off the west coast caused a shortfall in supply to the market, which was around 2 million cubic metres short on Monday afternoon,National Grid data showed.
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Most notably in the simplification measures the number of the fuels subject to the scheme have been cut from 29 to 4.
A rule which requires CRC participants to account for at least 90% of their total carbon footprint emissions has also be scrapped.
Mr Barker has admitted in the past the incentive element of the CRC was cut to fill a Treasury black hole, but his plans to reform the CRC fall far short of what business leaders had hoped for.
However, nuclear power was one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition after the May 2010 general elections.
The government is planning to construct the new suite of reactors to maintain electricity supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions after closing down an old generation of power stations, British media reported.
"Around a quarter of the United Kingdom's generating capacity is due to close by the end of this decade. We need to replace this with secure, low carbon, affordable energy," said Energy Minister Charles Hendry.
British Gas has been given a £1m penalty by energy regulator Ofgem for misreporting the amount of renewable electricity it supplied to its business customers over a seven-year period.
