What’s going on with electricity prices?

Q&A: ESB is accused of price gouging in Dáil

Cool Planet and SSE Airtricity working on venture to pay clients for curbing electricity use

Cool Planet is recruiting industrial customers that can take pressure off electricity supplies by switching off equipment

ESB earning ‘super-normal profits’ amid ‘price gouging’, FF TD says

Provider earned €250m extra for electricity supplied over three months

Mainstream Renewable raises €90m to accelerate new market entries

Wind and solar energy group says additional funds will extend company’s footprint

SSE rejects activist investor Elliott’s call to break up

Energy giant announces plans to increase green investments as profits rise

Damien Duff set to take reins at Shelbourne for return to Premier Division

Former Ireland international has been coaching the club’s under-17s for the last two years

SSE Airtricity and Budget Energy announce more price rises

Suppliers blame ‘sustained increases’ in wholesale costs for third rise in 10 months

Can Government’s ambitious retrofit target be achieved?

Plan that aims to improve energy ratings of 500,000 homes faces number of challenges

Irish-led Corre Energy valued at €62m on Dublin flotation

Renewables group, which focuses on underground storage of gases, raises €12m in IPO

Energy trading firm ElectroRoute hires Glen Dimplex CFO Donal Flynn

Finance director Yvonne Burke to succeed Flynn at electrical heating appliances group

SSE Renewables gives €1.1m to sports clubs

Cash is for communities near its wind farms

‘If I were taoiseach, I’d make the move to electric transport more accessible’

The Lighter Side: Klair Neenan, managing director of SSE Airtricity

Fishermen deserve say in location of offshore wind farms, argue MEPs

Wind farms can have a severe negative impact on marine life and fisheries, says report

Bord Gáis Energy to increase electricity and gas prices

Customers will pay €11.39 more a month on average for electricity, €8.36 for gas

Households face €8.20 monthly bill hike as Electric Ireland increases prices

ESB subsidiary blames wholesale charges for decision to raise electricity and gas costs

SSE Renewables to spend €15m on Arklow harbour

Facility to provide support for offshore wind farm

Businessman sorry for ‘insensitive’ comments about Africa

Eddie O’Connor accused of using ‘antiquated stereotypes’ during climate conference

Mainstream investors retain 25% stake as Aker deal closes

Agreement includes a potential €100 million payment in 2023 if certain performance conditions are met

The best smart home devices to improve your energy consumption

A guide to what Energia, Bord Gáis, Electric Ireland and SSE Airtricity offer customers

SSE to sell its 33% stake in Scotland Gas Networks

Disposal follows a deal by National Grid to sell its majority stake in its gas grid business

Shelbourne’s Ciara Grant eager to break back into Ireland squad

A qualified doctor, she is targeting another league title and playing professionally

‘It will take all of 2021 to get our business back to normal operations’

For Coillte, the biggest crisis of recent years has not been Covid, says chief executive

Eirgrid proposals to include €2bn power line around Irish coast

State body tasked with redeveloping power network to meet 70% renewable energy target

Energia to increase gas and electricity prices from April

Increases will see just over €100 a year added to the average household’s annual bills

SSE to spend up to €6bn building offshore wind farms

London-listed utility plans to build wind farms off Louth, Wicklow and in Celtic Sea

Personal injury awards, DPC’s Big Tech decisions, and Facebook’s lobbying

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Former solicitors who created false identities in €400,000 fraud are jailed

Keith Flynn and his wife, Lyndsey Clarke, created 80 fake accounts

Women’s game still hampered by players paying to play

Marie Curtin hopeful progress can be made with some investment in national league

Has Eddie O’Connor underestimated the value of his €1bn baby?

‘Share price jump implies that market believes that Aker Horizons has paid well below what it thinks Mainstream is worth’

Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream to be sold to Aker in €1bn deal

Deal values the founder’s stake in wind and solar energy group at €550 million

Covid complications push Mainstream sale into next year

The deal had been expected to be completed by the end of 2020

Champions Rovers ready to step up their pursuit of the double in Ballybofey

Player of the Month Murray says cup success would complete a good season for Dundalk

Cost the main hurdle to cutting business greenhouse gas emissions

More than 80% of enterprises believe they are environmentally friendly

Former solicitors ran an ‘identity factory’ in committing fraud – court told

Keith Flynn and Lyndsey Clarke created 80 fake accounts with 60 false identities

Electric Ireland announces new moratorium on disconnections

Supplier freezes gas prices, while SSE Airtricity announces gas and electricity freeze

SSE agrees to sell 50% stakes in two energy-from-waste ventures

Move comes as part of company’s plan to focus on renewable generation

An end-to-end home energy upgrade service

An Post’s new Green Hub provides homeowners with everything they need to undertake a retrofit project

How energy usage changed during coronavirus lockdown

Commercial and industrial electricity demand fell sharply but rose in residential properties

Getting smarter with energy consumption

New technologies are giving people greater control over the costs of energy usage

CRH finance chief Senan Murphy announces surprise exit

Fellow former Bank of Ireland executive Andrew Keating seen as likely successor

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