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The Energy and Climate Change Minister–Charles Hendry said in an intervention likely to put pressure on regulators, that the suppliers might be too important to future energy secrurity to be exposed to the full rigours of a competition investigation. This warning came along with the speculation that the Competition Commission could be called in to [...]

Accenture, the management consultancy, was locked in a £220 million High Court battle with British Gas. According to a 2008 High Court writ, the 2006 IT project, known as Project Jupiter, was the cause of poor customer service that led to hundreds of thousands of people abandoning British Gas. At the height of the problems, [...]

The Scottish energy producer—Venture Production, which is fighting off a hostile offer from Centrica, has been forced to admit that its new gas well has come up drier than expected. The most optimistic esimates predicted the Andrea well in the North Sea would produce up to 44m barrels of oil equivalent. However, this has been [...]