At present the Environment Agency is slowly but surely trying to understand exactly how many people should have registered for the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, whether it be as full participants or simple information disclosures. With 3,100 confirmed full participants against a pre-estimated 5,000, at the moment no one’s quite sure of the total numbers.

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In line with the UK Governments spending cuts, DEFRA has announced significant cuts and structural reform to its largest non‐quango body, The Environment Agency. DEFRA believes radical reform is required in order to make the Environment Agency leaner with greater levels of efficiency, whilst it also provides an end to any potential policy‐making and lobbying activities. MORE ABOUT THE DOWNSIZING EFFECT

[/caption]British Gas have canceled their annual conference. This may well have been an excellent opportunity to hear BGB extolling their Smart meter successes, or reassuring businesses that slashing more than £100 million out of back Office Staff wouldn’t impact on Service Levels.

Businesses were probably as keen to try and understand how BGB’s current focus on increasing the value extracted from Business users would sit with a professed intention to offer high levels of service to SME groups.
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To provide you with an overview of how the gas and electricity industry works, we have done some research and found this very media friendly video produced around 2 years ago [so a little out of date but the basic facts remain the same]. It explains the way the gas and electricity network works in relation to consumers and suppliers. Worth a viewing to get an overview of the subject matter.

Whilst liberalisation of the market is an imperfect method of improving the situation for both Business and Domestic customers, this along with some legislative requirements on the part of the government has shown some improvements. Some of the regulatory bodies discussed in the film were from a Business Energy Consumer fairly toothless in terms of addressing some of the hardline tactics of most suppliers. So once again Businesses need to be smart, manage their energy carefully otherwise it will cost!
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