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Tariff reviews commenced for regulated electricity and gas suppliers
Northern Ireland's Utility Regulator has today announced (Thursday 8th February) that it has started a review of a number of electricity...
Feb 8, 2024


Budget Energy announces a 9% price decrease on variable rates for electricity
Budget Energy, Northern Ireland’s third largest electricity supplier, has announced a price decrease of 9% for their domestic electricity...
Feb 2, 2024


Ulster Bank backs crucial NI infrastructure firm with £70 million loan
Damien Long, Relationship Director, Ulster Bank, Denise Curran, Finance Director, firmus energy, and Catherine Green, Associate Director,...
Jan 31, 2024


SSE Airtricity announces a 6.3% price decrease for electricity
SSE Airtricity, Northern Ireland’s second largest electricity supplier, has announced a price decrease of 6.3% for their electricity...
Jan 26, 2024


Firmus Energy makes £1.2m investment in Crumlin
Ryan Krammer – Network Engineer for Firmus Energy. Local natural gas supplier Firmus Energy is on track to finalise Phase 1 of their...
Oct 30, 2023


NIE Networks tells customers to prepare for disruptive winter weather
NIE Networks has called on people dependent on medical equipment to be prepared for power cuts in the event ofdisruptive weather this...
Oct 25, 2023


Fibrus expands Full Fibre broadband network to Cloughmills
Julian Simpson, Hyperfast NI; Philip McGuigan MLA; Sian Mulholland MLA; Robin Swann MLA; Ian Paisley MP; and Colin Hutchinson, Chief...
Oct 4, 2023


SSE Airtricity announces 7% price decrease for electricity customers in Northern Ireland
SSE Airtricity has today announced a 7% decrease in its standard unit rates for electricity, effective from 1 November 2023. The decrease...
Sep 22, 2023


NI Water to carry out pipelaying in Carrickfergus as part of environmental protection measures
NI Water is due to begin work to install a new stormwater pipeline on Marine Highway/Taylors Avenue on Monday 25th September. The work,...
Sep 18, 2023


Firmus Energy to invest additional £120million to developing its network
Pictured (L-R): Firmus Energy chairman Dr David Dobbin CBE and company CEO Niall Martindale were joined at the energy briefing by AFRY’s...
Sep 18, 2023


BT’s new home phone service, Digital Voice, to be rolled out across Northern Ireland
BT recently announced plans to roll out its new home phone service, Digital Voice, on a region-by-region basis. Having started in the...
Sep 11, 2023


Firmus announces gas price drop for Ten Towns customers
Northern Ireland’s largest supplier of natural gas, Firmus Energy, has today (Wednesday 6th September) announced that from 1st October...
Sep 6, 2023


Consultation open for wind farms on the coast of Co Antrim and Co Down
North Channel Wind project director Niamh Kenny says proposals for a pair of floating wind farms in the Irish Sea off the coasts of...
Jun 20, 2023


Utility Regulator comments on review of regulated domestic electricity and gas tariffs
Following a review of regulated energy tariffs in Northern Ireland, Power NI will reduce its domestic electricity tariff by 7.1%, while...
Jun 2, 2023


Power NI announces cut to electric price but changes to Government EPG mean prices will rise
Power NI has today [2 June] announced that a review of its underlying residential unit price has resulted in a 2.4p per unit* (7.1%)...
Jun 2, 2023


Domestic consumers urged to avail of debt support offered by energy suppliers
The Utility Regulator recently published the results of its third annual Domestic Consumer Insight Tracker survey that provided further...
May 19, 2023


firmus energy customers to benefit from second tariff reduction this year
Customers of Northern Ireland’s largest supplier of natural gas, firmus energy, will benefit from reduced tariffs in the Ten Towns...
Mar 30, 2023


Changes to government EPG scheme set to impact all electricity and gas tariffs in NI
The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) Scheme was introduced in Northern Ireland in November 2022 by the UK Government to help households with...
Mar 17, 2023


Bills set to rise for Electric Ireland customers
The UK Government announced yesterday a change in the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) support rate, from 13.608 pence/kWh to 3.7697...
Mar 16, 2023


Power NI announces price cut however customers bills set to rise
Power NI has today, 16 March, announced that a review of its underlying residential unit price has resulted in a 6.61p per unit (16.2%)...
Mar 16, 2023
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