Britain’s biggest household energy supplier is offering half-price power to hundreds of thousands of customers every Sunday throughout the summer. British Gas said that it would refund half the unit rate for electricity used by participating customers between 11am and 4pm each Sunday. The scheme is designed to encourage households to shift energy-intensive activities such…
Those of us still gainfully employed in white-collar jobs may be permitted a moment of self-congratulation. Two years ago, the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT was accompanied by dire predictions that “knowledge workers”, as we are somewhat pretentiously known, would be the first victims of the next industrial revolution. Our pathetic emails and data analysis skills…
The boss of the UK’s largest water provider has warned that the regulator’s planned cuts to its spending plans could “prevent the turnaround and recovery” of the crisis-hit business. Chris Weston, chief executive of Thames Water, said Ofwat’s proposals would mean the utility’s business plan for 2025 to 2030 would not be backed by investors…
Recently I made a strange faux pas. A relatively new work contact suggested a call at 4pm. This suggestion was made via email, after which I went out. When I got back to my desk, I looked at the original email and rang the mobile number at the bottom. “Who is this?” came the cagey…
The future of a green energy trust backed by the government is in the balance amid a dispute with its investment manager over a solar project in India. ThomasLloyd Group, an investor in green energy projects in Asia, yesterday pleaded for a row with the board of the listed ThomasLloyd Energy Impact Trust to stop…
The chief executive of John Wood Group has said that he will not be pushed into changing strategy even as the engineering consultancy faces its second takeover attempt in a year. Ken Gilmartin was speaking as Wood unveiled a 6 per cent drop in first-quarter revenue to $1.4 billion. The company rejected a £1.4 billion…
The chief executive of SSE has said that the UK must speed up the process for building critical infrastructure if it wants to achieve its net-zero goals. The warning came as the company announced the completion of two big projects in the Shetland Islands, Britain’s windiest region, including a subsea cable connecting them to mainland…
The former boss of Aston Martin has branded the rescue of Britishvolt a “farce” after its prospective owner failed to meet its final payment for the business. Andy Palmer said Britishvolt had become a “blot on the UK battery landscape” as administrators warned the payment from Australian bidder Recharge Industries was “unpaid and overdue”. EY…
Now we know why Chris O’Shea’s been growing a ridiculous Dickensian beard. Not so his whiskers can keep him extra warm this winter, by which time they’ll be around four-foot long and the energy-saving equivalent of a mobile duvet. No, it’s to disguise himself from Ed Miliband, Ed Davey and all the other ’edbangers calling…