Envirogy Power has joined the  Black Country Chamber of Commerce , the regions leading business community to strengthen its presence in the region. It will also use its membership to promote the new 'TurningTheBlackCountryGreen.com' initiative to businesses in the Black Country and assist them in becoming Carbon Zero and significantly reduce their energy costs and consumption.

With the government announcing that the UK will be 100% Carbon Neutral by 2050 in May 2019, it is imperative that businesses and consumers start to reduce their carbon today, but how do they do it? If you ask any businesses owner if they would like to become more environmentally friendly, most would reply yes, as long as it doesn't cost time or financially, well now it doesn't! TurningTheBlackCoutryGreen.com is a dedicated initiative for businesses of all sizes to assist them in becoming Carbon Zero at the same time as reducing energy costs. We install Carbon Expert in order to begin calculating the size of the carbon problem, then a bespoke plan is introduced to reduce carbon and energy which can be usually funded through savings negating the need for any Capex. Early adopters are enjoying energy cost reductions of 42.2%!

Experts are forecasting Electricity prices to rise by 56.5% in the UK over the next decade, whilst Gas prices are only forecast to rise by 18.1%  over the same period. Supply & Demand are not the only contributing factors contributing in the price rise, increasing non-commodity costs in electricity are adding double digit increases. 

Historically, businesses have had little option but to acquire electricity from the grid, but now here are a number of decentralised energy solutions available to businesses, that will not only reduce energy costs today, but protect them from future global increase and offer Carbon Zero solutions. Envirogy Power : The Energy Experts are proud to offer clients a market leading 30 year warranted SOLAR solution and a 15 year warranted CHP solution.  

Ofgem has announced that the cap will fall by £75 a year from Tuesday 1 October for a typical dual-fuel household. But while bills are likely to drop accordingly, most of the 11 million on standard tariffs will still be massively overpaying.

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The UK would be vulnerable to gas supply shortages and price hikes after Brexit, an industry leader has warned. Marco Alvera, head of European industry body GasNaturally, told the BBC that EU nations could restrict gas exports to the UK during winter cold snaps in order to prioritise their own citizens. "We've spoken to several ministers and civil servants over the last two years. Energy has not been discussed enough."

The UK imports almost half the gas it consumes via pipelines from Europe. Some 39% of the UK's electricity supply was generated from natural gas last year, according to official government statistics. "I would make [energy security] a high priority point in the discussions, and I haven't seen it be like that," said Mr Alvera, who is also the chief executive of Italian gas pipeline company Snam, which owns a minority stake in one of the two main UK-Europe gas pipelines. He added that EU nations would also theoretically have the ability to impose tariffs on their gas and electricity exports to the UK post-Brexit.

The UK has become overly dependent on imported natural gas to meet its winter fuel needs, Mr Alvera warned. He said this was because the UK's own North Sea gas supplies had wound down, while at the same time the country had shut down much of its gas storage infrastructural capacity. "We see one of the consequences of global warming is more extreme temperatures in the summer and in the winter," he told the Business Daily programme on BBC World Service radio. "In the week when we had the 'Beast from the East' very cold spell coming, the system was already under a lot of strain, and the UK was taking a lot of gas from Europe that was stored in Europe."

UK domestic production: 44%

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports: 9%

European pipelines: 47% (of which 36% comes from Russia and 21% from Norway)

Data as of 2017. Source: British Gas

The UK could remedy the situation relatively easily, he said, by converting old exhausted North Sea gas fields into gas storage facilities. Mr Alvera also claimed that much of the UK's gas imports originated from Russia, having been piped across the rest of Europe. The extent of UK reliance on Russian gas has been a source of controversy since the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury in March last year. Less that 1% of UK gas consumption last year came directly from Russia as liquefied natural gas imports. However the ultimate source is of the UK's piped gas imports is harder to determine, with one estimate putting it at 36% in 2017.

The warning echoes the findings of a 2017 House of Lords report, which said that the UK could be "more vulnerable to supply shortages in the event of extreme weather or unplanned generation outages". The risk would arise upon the UK's exit from the EU's Internal Energy Market, which would potentially take place at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with the EU. In the case of a no-deal Brexit, the UK would be at risk immediately upon leaving the EU. The bulk of the UK's natural gas imports come via Norway, which is part of the Internal Energy Market, although it is not an EU member. The Lords report also concluded that it was possible, but "unlikely that tariffs will be applied to UK-EU trade in gas and electricity post-Brexit, even in the event of a no-deal scenario. "However, the energy industry could be affected by tariffs on products used in the construction and maintenance of the energy system." 

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, Britain is obtaining more power from zero-carbon sources than fossil fuels. The milestone has been passed for the first five months of 2019. National Grid says clean energy has nudged ahead with 48% of generation, against 47% for coal and gas. The rest is biomass burning. The transformation reflects the precipitous decline of coal energy, and a boom from wind and solar. National Grid says that in the past decade, coal generation will have plunged from 30% to 3%. Meanwhile, wind power has shot up from 1% to 19%. Mini-milestones have been passed along the way. In May, for instance, Britain clocked up its first coal-free fortnight and generated record levels of solar power for two consecutive days.

Smaller energy suppliers hoping to break into the market will have to pass tougher tests, following a string of company collapses. Regulator Ofgem said it was raising the bar to entry to "minimise the impact" of supplier failure on consumers. Firms will have to prove they have sufficient funding and can provide proper customer service.

* Show their intentions to provide proper level of customer service

* Show that directors, shareholders and senior managers are "fit and proper" to hold a licence

Introduced on 1st January 2019, the energy price cap has increased as of today 1st April 2019, resulting in 11 million households paying an average of £117 more a year for their energy. This increase reflects the average forecast increase of the wholesale price over the next 6 months, with a further increase expected on 1st October 2019! Domestic customers can save hundreds of pounds a year, accessing every tariff from every supplier at the same time as raising vital funds for their chosen charity, by switching their home energy with www.fundraisingenergy.org.uk The process is simple, OFGEM accredited and registered with the FUNDRAISING REGULATOR.

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The energy market is currently not working for consumers who remain loyal to their energy supplier. More than half of UK households are on their energy suppliers expensive default tariff. On average, default tariffs are around £320 a year more than the cheapest market deal. The current UK Government pledged to cap energy prices and in November, Ofgem announced that the energy price cap would be going ahead on the 1st of January 2019. So, what does this mean? The energy price cap will limit how much energy suppliers can charge customers per unit of energy. Ofgem has calculated what energy suppliers needs to spend to get energy to your home. However, Centrica (the parent company of British Gas) has raised a legal challenge. They argue that the energy price cap has not been calculated fairly and would cost them £70m in lost operating profits in the first quarter of 2019. To ensure you never overpay for your domestic energy, simply click on our 'Domestic' tab to access our OFGEM Accredited switching site that gives you access to every single tariff from every single supplier in the UK.

Centrica-owner British Gas will raise its SVT by 3.8%, which will take the average bill for a typical dual fuel customer to £1,205, which the company said is "just below the average of the SVTs for the larger energy suppliers" and represents an increase of £44.