energy retail

  • Regulation and policy

    New Year’s Resolution – Improve the Protections Given to Vulnerable Consumers

    Ofgem published its final Consumer Vulnerability Strategy (CVS) in October, setting out how it plans to tackle vulnerability in the energy market. While the CVS covers the time period up until 2025 the regulator gives us an idea of what to expect in the first year of the strategy in...

  • Home supply and services

    Editor’s Pick | GB retailers set sights on international markets

    Cornwall Insight retail market analyst Molly Lloyd examines suppliers moving into international markets and discusses some of their potential motives for doing so. The GB energy retail market has long been characterised by entries and acquisitions from suppliers outside these shores. The oil and gas majors in the 1980s and...

  • Home supply and services

    Match abandoned: SSE and npower exemplify tough playing conditions in supply

    SSE has announced that the merger of its GB retail supply business with npower has been called off. It was clear that the deal was in trouble back in early November when SSE told the stock market that the terms of the merger were being re-negotiated. This was always a...

  • E-mobility and low carbon

    EVs meet the electricity market: clear road or bumps ahead?

    Cornwall Insight partnered with international law firm Gowling WLG to host a joint half-day seminar on 13 November 2018 to inform the developing debate on electric vehicle (EV) and electricity market synergies. Over 50 attendees heard from a diverse range of experts on how transport electrification at scale can be...

  • Home supply and services

    What should be the smart response to the smart meter rollout deadline?

    Suppliers are expected to take all reasonable steps to complete the smart meter rollout to all homes and eligible small businesses by 31 December 2020. With just 25 months remaining the National Audit Office’s (NAO) recent report on the programme has found that the number of meters that will be installed will...

  • Home supply and services

    Picking Winner: Valuation drivers in the energy supply

    For more than a decade the number of active licensed energy suppliers has been increasing, slowly at first but dozens a year more recently. This year though that number has tipped in to decline as companies such as Flow Energy, Iresa and Affect Energy have for different reasons left the...

  • Business supply and services

    Pricing strategies in the SME market

    Following the transparency measure introduced by the CMA in June 2017, suppliers servicing microbusinesses are required to make their rates easily available to customers. Whilst the majority of suppliers evaluated in our SME pricing reports have introduced online quotation tools to fulfil this requirement, the pricing strategies they reveal vary...

  • Home supply and services

    Critical time for the smart meter roll-out

    This year is make or break time in the roll-out of smart meters.  Our research shows that roughly 10mn meters have been installed so far.  That leaves more than 40mn to go, with less than 3 years to do it in. There has been a flurry of recent directions from...