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Consultation published on proposed modification of PTL licence

… This is a consultation on proposed modifications to the Premier … gas bill, are calculated using a postalised regime, which is fully reconciled every year to facilitate the lower … amounts comprise part of the year-end reconciliation which is either collected from, or paid back to, suppliers. The …

14 May 2021

Northern Ireland Electricity Regulator publishes MMC Report

… (“the public interest detriments”). My present intention is to largely accept the Commission’s proposed modifications. … at Chapter 1 of the Commission’s report, a copy of which is attached as Annex 1 to this notice. I am not, However, … Order 1992 are available from HMSO bookshops, price £26. {ISBN 0337112436} 2. Comments on the report should be …

25 April 1997

Update on protecting energy and water consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic

… Our focus During the Covid-19 pandemic our focus is on protecting the interests of consumers, particularly the … and longer-term impacts of the pandemic on all consumers is something that we will be considering in all aspects of … 2020 we sent an information request to licensees . On 26 March 2020 we established a working group with the …

23 April 2020

Price Control and Tariffs

… Our primary role is to promote and protect the interests of water and sewerage … in Northern Ireland. One of the ways in which we do this is by setting prices which allow NI Water to deliver water … company, and sets out the money the company requires and is allowed to charge. Currently the charge which is …

Latest Quarterly Retail Energy Market Monitoring report on NI’s retail energy market published

… Retail Energy Market Monitoring (QREMM) Report for Q3 2025 is the latest in a series of Utility Regulator reports that … lower than the UK (36.2 p/kWh) but higher than Ireland (26.4 p/kWh) and the EU median (22.7 p/kWh).    For Large and … price for the Very Small connections was 8.6 p/kWh, which is just above EU median (8.2 p/kWh), Ireland (8.3 p/kWh), and …

17 December 2025

Latest Quarterly Retail Energy Market Monitoring report on NI’s retail energy market published

… Retail Energy Market Monitoring (QREMM) Report for Q1 2025 is the latest in a series of Utility Regulator reports that … Retail Energy Market Monitoring (QREMM) Report for Q1 2025 is the latest in a series of Utility Regulator reports that …

12 June 2025

Consumer Protection - including protection for vulnerable consumers

… purpose of the UR’s new Corporate Strategy (2019-24) is to protect and empower all consumers.  The first objective of this strategy is to promote markets that deliver effective competition, … interventions.  The Consumer Protection Programme (CPP) is our primary means of delivering these fair and equitable …

Consumer Protection - including protection for vulnerable consumers

… purpose of the UR’s new Corporate Strategy (2019-24) is to protect and empower all consumers.  The first objective of this strategy is to promote markets that deliver effective competition, … interventions.  The Consumer Protection Programme (CPP) is our primary means of delivering these fair and equitable …

UR publishes its approach to retail energy market monitoring

… The purpose of this information note is to give our stakeholders a high level introduction to … at an early stage of development of the project.  REMM is a flagship project for us during 2014-15, and is one of three projects which combine to deliver our … The purpose of this information note is to give our stakeholders a high level introduction to …

18 June 2014

Launch of electricity connections consultation

… works well for Northern Ireland electricity consumers is essential. Getting connected easily and at a fair price is important for domestic and business consumers and … in way which means other network consumers only pay what is necessary for their energy. We published a call for …

03 April 2017

Electricity Connections Consultation

… works well for Northern Ireland electricity consumers is essential. Getting connected easily and at a fair price is important for domestic and business consumers and … in way which means other network consumers only pay what is necessary for their energy. We published a call for …

03 April 2017

Director General announces auction of Interconnector Capacity on Moyle and North /South Links

… arrangements which pertain. 1.4 In this respect it is useful to consider the issues in two separate stages (and timeframes). Firstly, the Moyle interconnector is expected to be fully commissioned and available for use on … the financial year which most suppliers and customers use is April-March there will be a 3-month period in which an …

05 February 2001

Consultation on review of contestability in electricity connection published

… in electricity connections in NI. This review is in line with our statutory duty to promote competition … generation or supply of electricity. This consultation is part of our commitment to keep under review areas … to promote competition. The aim of the consultation is to provide stakeholders with a contestability update, and …

01 February 2021

Utility Regulator says 'no change on gas prices a good outcome for consumers at this time'

… Regulator has welcomed the news that Phoenix Supply Ltd is to make no change to its gas prices. Chief Executive, Iain … decision by Phoenix Supply Ltd to leave prices as they are is a good outcome for consumers at this time, as we enter the … standard gas tariff than the Republic of Ireland, and this is among the lowest in the UK. “The no change announcement is …

16 September 2010

Decrease to SSE Airtricity Gas Supply’s tariff welcomed by Utility Regulator

… SSE Airtricity Gas Supply’s reduction of 18.7%, which is great news for their domestic and small business customers … Belfast area. The key driver for this tariff change is the significant decrease in wholesale gas costs. There is also an over recovery from the current tariff period that …

06 March 2020

Decision on the application of exit fees in the small business energy market

… provides detail on when the application of an exit fee is appropriate. This follows a consultation published earlier … their contract before the end of the fixed term. This is a continuation of the status quo.  It also will see … previous decision paper no longer being implemented. This is in the context of the obligation on energy suppliers to …

25 October 2019

Licence modification consultation on a severe weather event

… these guaranteed standards. The first stage in this review is to update NIE’s licence to include a definition of a … event and the potential impacts on how NIE performance is measured.  A formal licence modification notice is also included at Annex 3 to the consultation paper. …

07 October 2014

Consultation on initial proposals for the BGE(NI) price control on operating expenditure

… Today the Utility Regulator is publishing a consultation on the initial proposals for the … BGE (NI) are the gas transmission system operators. This is the second consultation paper on the Price Control … the first consultation published in December 2011 and this is also being published .  The impact to consumers can be …

19 April 2012

SEM

… What is the SEM? The electricity industry operates a single … (for more information visit – https://www.semcommittee.com ) on which both regulators are represented along with an … an overview of the market and how it operates on its web site, which explains how the it works to achieve the …

Updated work programme for the six-month review of the domestic electricity market opening

… The Utility Regulator is publishing an updated version of our work programme for … work programme was published on 5 November 2010 . It is expected that the review will be complete by February/March 2011 and it is likely that the policy decisions that come out of the …

12 November 2010

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