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Utilities

August 2024

  • A running tap in a kitchen

    Compensation for water customers in England and Wales to double

    Government sets out measures to help households and businesses as it cracks down on failing utilities firms
  • Aerial image of Thames Water's Deephams sewage treatment works in London.

    Thames Water’s turnaround plan to be supervised by independent monitor

    Ofwat says monitor will have access to company’s financial information and report back to regulator
  • A new-build housing estate in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear.

    Cracks in Angela Rayner’s plan for a housing revolution

    Letters: David Woollcombe points out the crucial need for infrastructure to be built alongside new homes. Plus letters from Dr Stephen Battersby, Tony Ingham and Martin Large

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer at the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast

    Starmer to take on Labour councils that block pylons delivering clean energy

  • A British Gas worker gathers equipment from his van in Westminster, London

    British Gas profits slip from record highs as energy market ‘normalises’

  • Thames Water vans

    Thames Water breaches licence as part of its debt downgraded to junk

  • A view of Swalecliffe wastewater treatment works in Kent

    Here’s how we can fight back on water bills

  • The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution?

  • Every water firm in England and Wales under investigation over sewage spills

  • Southern Water boss handed £183,000 bonus despite huge rise in bills

  • Information commissioner urges water firms to ‘be open’ about sewage spills

  • Thames Water owner to liquidate solar energy subsidiary amid debt crisis

  • £1.2bn plan to turn sewage waste into drinking water branded a ‘white elephant’

  • Thames Water hit with £39m of penalties after missing regulatory targets

  • Thames Water placed in special measures due to ‘significant issues’

  • Rise of £94 in water bills over five years is ‘bitter pill’, says chancellor

  • Debt, sewage and dividends: the rising tide of Thames Water’s troubles

  • Thames Water fails to complete 108 upgrades to ageing sewage works

  • Cheap sales, debt and foreign takeovers: how privatisation changed the water industry

  • Thames Water to tap investors for funds as it will run out of cash by next June

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