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Top tweets Paul Waugh @paulwaugh Now No.10 source adds to Treasury dumping on BBC energy bills plea story: "utterly misleading". There goes that 'Pleas Please Me' headline… David Powell @powellds On energy, govt's a rugby player 9 pints into a 15 pint bender. Pugnacious, leaky, wobbly, teetering on the edge of lachrymose. Green LibDems @GreenLibDems Good Energy freeze their prices until March 2014. Demonstrating that renewables are now cheaper and more predictable. London opened its first energy from waste heat network this week, supplying 2,500 homes with heating and hot water and saving almost 8,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. The network was opened by Estelle Brachlianoff, Veolia Environnement executive vice president, Cllr Barrie Hargrove, Southwark Council, and Matthew Pencharz from the GLA. The scheme will see tonnes of rubbish from Southwark homes transformed into heat and hot water. Energy Wright out Ofgem's acting chief executive Andrew Wright ruled himself out of the race for the permanent post this week. Wright, widely tipped as favourite for the job, has not applied, the regulator confirmed, leaving the race to replace Alistair Buchanan, who stepped down in June, wide open. "[Energy suppliers] should have no entitlement to any level of profit" Acting Ofgem chief executive Andrew Wright to the Energy and Climate Change Committee Electricity Grid needs 'systems architect' The UK's power networks need a "systems architect" to make sure the grid stays stable while gearing up for disruptive new technology, according to a report by the Institution of Engineering and Technology launched on Thursday. It said decarbonisation was "the biggest peace-time change to national infrastructure that GB will have seen" and a joined-up approach was "vital". It made the recommendation as Utility Week revealed a gulf between the government's low-carbon aspirations and network companies' business plans (see p24). Benedict Brogan @benedictbrogan Whatever they intended, this energy price hold/plea/freeze/notourfault/con thingy ends up looking like Tories dancing to @Ed_Miliband's tune. Bryony Worthington @bryworthington Feels like black day for DECC bullied into shoddy announcement by panicked PM. Thought Perm Sec supposed to stop this sort of nonsense? Darren Beale @bealers Green Deal changes announced today. Feels a bit fluffy: contains words like 'look at'. Nothing on early repayments. Sheila Benjamin @sjbenj Today's energy bills announcement a bit of a mixed bag but its a start on the right road. Energy suppliers and OFGEM to follow. Charlie Elphicke @CharlieElphicke Welcome to see water companies proposing real cuts in bills 2015-2020 except Thames Water who should think again. Labour Energy @labourenergy PM said ECO was 'bigger and better' than previous schemes, now he says he wants to cut it @CarolineFlintMP reminds #hoc. Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas Govt claim to reduce energy bills by slashing the very scheme designed to cut them takes double-speak to new levels. UTILITY WEEK | 6th - 12th December 2013 | 5