Families in the more deprived areas of the UK are around five times more likely to be disconnected from their energy supplies, according to gas and electricity watchdog energywatch. The organisation’s research formed part of the evidence presented to the Parliamentary Trade

Centrica, Britain’s biggest gas and electricity supplier, is to sell off its non-core asset the Automobile Association The sale of the AA is expected to provide for a substantial cash return to shareholders as well as to pay for more gas acquisitions.

A £90m UK government scheme to subsidise electricity prices for Northern Ireland’s business community has been delayed by Brussels. The three-year programme was due to have been put in place by the end of June but has not won approval from the

Native American tribes in Oregon have hit ScottishPower with a $1bn lawsuit in an attempt to prevent the company damming the Klamath river in Oregon, which they regard as sacred, as part of an hydro-electric power scheme. Klamath River Dams is owned