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Electricity Market Reform holds little promise for smaller independent UK generators

The transition between the UK government's renewable support mechanisms is of crucial importance for new investment, as the uncertainty and regulatory risk implied means that investment will be at best hesitant, and at worst will come to a grinding halt.

Published By Datamonitor
02 Apr 2013
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Collective switching rising as an acquisition channel in the UK residential market

Collective switching is an innovative and co-operative way of reaching out to the "less connected," the elderly, and the energy-poor to provide a level of confidence about their ability to switch supplier should an alternative and better price be available. Therefore it has the potential to be an important channel for suppliers into these hard-to-reach customer segments.

Published By Datamonitor
28 Mar 2013
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SMA Solar Technology anticipating a loss in 2013 - no-one is safe

If a company with a long history, strong brand, and monopolistic market share can begin to lose money in the PV industry then it goes to show that the solar shakeout is not over, and may not even have begun in earnest.

Published By Datamonitor
28 Mar 2013
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Datamonitor to launch Wholesale Energy Pricing Dashboard in April

Datamonitor's Wholesale Energy Pricing Dashboard will update monthly and contain power, gas, carbon, coal, and spark spread data going back as far as 2001. The data will be visualized using a dynamic interface, allowing trends to be identified quickly and easily customized.

Published By Datamonitor
28 Mar 2013
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German manufacturer Bosch exits solar PV market

A saturated market and continued degression of solar feed-in tariffs in Germany are pushing equipment manufacturers out of business, a trend that appears set to continue amid concerns about the costs of the country's renewable support act. This trend is symptomatic of a global solar PV market that is seeing only the most solid manufacturers remain.

Published By Datamonitor
28 Mar 2013
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First Utility's customer service failings identified in new Datamonitor report

With a price-focused customer acquisition model, First Utility has overachieved. Revenue growth in the thousands of percent over the last five years means that it has not been able to adapt its systems to this growth and has failed in many areas of customer service.

Published By Datamonitor
25 Mar 2013
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Solar panel manufacturers must be allowed to fail

Further to Datamonitor's reporting of the state of the solar PV industry in 2012 and the Chinese trade disputes, the inevitable contraction of the Chinese solar PV manufacturing industry is beginning as one of the country's largest manufacturers, Suntech Power, announces the bankruptcy of its main operating subsidiary, Wuxi Suntech. The Chinese government would be ill-advised to halt it.

Published By Datamonitor
25 Mar 2013
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New UK nuclear capacity nearly dead - update

EDF has received formal permission to develop the site at Hinkley Point in the UK where it wants to build two new reactors. The announcement was made on March 19 by the UK energy secretary. Being given permission to send in the excavators is only a formality, with the trickiest decisions still to be made.

Published By Datamonitor
20 Mar 2013
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Upcoming smart meter/smart grid research from Datamonitor Energy

Datamonitor Energy has identified several key issues in the smart meter/smart grid area. In April we will publish research on the issue of "Smart metering: public vs private networks - pros and cons of each approach and the growing acceptance of cellular connectivity in the smart grid."

Published By Datamonitor
19 Mar 2013
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UK joins non-binding EU agreement to support nuclear

The UK and 11 other EU countries have signaled their support for nuclear generation. Datamonitor expects benefits from such "soft" agreements to be long-term and to include easier access to funding and R&D sharing. In the short term, the UK government's new carbon price floor will make low-carbon generation, including nuclear, more attractive.

Published By Datamonitor
19 Mar 2013

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