Birmingham, UK, 23 April, 2010 – The Energy Consortium (TEC) has won its first major tender in the public sector since being confirmed as a Pan Government public buying organisation (PBO). The tender, which it jointly presented with its service provider Utilyx, is to provide gas and electricity contracts for four of London’s top tourist attractions; the V&A Museum, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Museum of Childhood, as well as the National Railway Museum at York and the National Media Museum in Bradford.   Read more...

Instead of holding one major conference, The Energy Consortium (TEC) has announced it’s taking to the road this June and hosting three roadshows at universities throughout the UK, focusing on ‘Supporting sustainability in education and the wider public sector’.   Read more...

The New Year started with a bang. Just as the market was getting complacent and singing the virtues of an oversupplied market and how low could the market go, along came the coldest winter snap in 30 years covering the UK in a blanket of snow and lifting NBP gas demand to record levels and prices up to 60p/th, levels not seen since February 2009, forcing National Grid to issue a gas balancing alert on four separate occasions. The GBA’s were a call to market to source more gas and for industrials to curb demand. The system responded and returned to balance bringing prices lower although some 100 industrial companies in the north east had their supplies reduced..........   Read more...

With recent low prices, TEC has been busy making energy purchases for its flexible contracts as far out as the Winter season for 2011; as a result of this all members of TEC’s Flexible Gas Basket now know exactly what price they will paying for their gas in the academic period 2009/2010. As TEC also benchmarks an equivalent FPFT price at the beginning of each contract these institutes can effectively report to senior management the consequences of moving to a flexible contract as opposed to staying on an FPFT contract.   Read more...

On the 19th January, the draft CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2010 was laid in the UK and Scottish Parliaments and in the National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly. It is subject to the approval of all four Administrations before it comes into force from April 2010.   Read more...

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (previously known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment) is a new, mandatory, energy saving and carbon emissions reduction scheme for the UK.   Read more...

The Energy Consortium (TEC) appoints Rocket Creative marketing agency Not for profit purchasing body retains agency to improve its service delivery to HE, FE and the wider public sector.  Read more...