
New Energy Minister
The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has been abolished and its activities transferred to the newly created Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) department. Formation of BEIS was announced on 14 July following the appointment of Theresa May as the new UK Prime Minister. Greg Clark has been named as energy minister in a newly restructured department of the UK government. Clark, who was shadow energy minister in 2008-2010 when his Conservative part

Green Energy Prices
Many suppliers have recently either placed a hiatus on green prices or have withdrawn them altogether, due to the Government’s announcements regarding the renewable market in the last budget, which resulted in great uncertainty in this sector. Examples of this include terminating the funding for the Green Deal scheme, and the vast reductions in Feed-In Tariffs for hydro / wind power. The result of this is that there are currently very few suppliers around who actually offer a