They Built It For a Crisis That Hadn’t Happened Yet. 45 Years Later, It Arrived.
How Saudi Arabia's 1979 East-West Pipeline became vital decades later, and what the story says about energy security, infrastructure and crisis planning.
New Financial Year, New Energy Contract: Why April Is the Best Month to Switch
The financial year turned on 1 April, and for UK businesses still sitting on an expired or rolling energy contract, that date just cost you money. Suppliers…
The Energy Company of the Future Won’t Sell You Units. It’ll Rent You the Kit.
Not because wholesale prices have fallen — they haven’t, not sustainably. Not because the government has fixed the market — it hasn’t. But because a handful…
End of Financial Year Energy Checklist: 5 Things Every UK Business Should Do Before 5 April
The 5th of April is closer than it looks. If you haven’t reviewed your energy position before the financial year closes, you’re leaving money on the table —…
Amber Energy in administration: what customers should do now
On Tuesday 3 March 2026, FRP Advisory was appointed joint administrator of Amber Energy Solutions Ltd, the Cardiff-based energy consultancy. Roughly 170…
What We Got Right (And Wrong) in Our 2023 Market Predictions
In early 2023, Telnergy published a market commentary for clients setting out our expectations for UK energy prices over the following two to three years…
The Road to Net Zero Should Start at Downing Street
With apologies to Jules Winnfield, the road to net zero is indeed littered on both sides by the litany of duplicitous men—politicians promising jam tomorrow…
Energy Costs and Business Valuation
A business spending £150,000 per year on energy at rates 20% above market is carrying an EBITDA drag of £30,000 annually. At a five-times earnings multiple —…
Law of Unintended Consequences: Net Zero Targets and the Coal Plants That Came Back
By 2020, the EU and UK governments had committed to ambitious carbon reduction pathways. Both pathways assumed a managed, sequential transition: renewables…
Law of Unintended Consequences: The Windfall Tax That Slowed North Sea Investment
The EPL raised approximately £9 billion over its first two years. It was used to fund the Energy Price Guarantee and Energy Bills Support Scheme — policy…
Law of Unintended Consequences: How Russian Sanctions Rebuilt European LNG
Before February 2022, Russia supplied approximately 40% of European gas demand through a network of pipeline infrastructure built over decades — Nordstream 1…
Why We Recommend Shorter Contracts in 2026 (And When We Don’t)
In 2026, we are in a market that is neither in crisis nor in the comfortable low-price equilibrium of 2018–2020. It is a structurally elevated…
The 63% Gas Saving: How We Did It and What Others Can Learn
Understanding how we achieved it is more useful than the number itself. Because the four decisions that produced it apply, in varying degrees, to the…
20 Years in UK Commercial Energy: What’s Actually Changed (And What Hasn’t)
Twenty-four years later, the UK energy market is unrecognisable in structure, geopolitical exposure, price volatility, and regulatory complexity. The job of…