Deezer 21 December, Deezer announced a new service level offering two hours of free, ad-supported music streaming a month, available to users worldwide, the company's first free music streaming service outside France. CEO Dauchez said that Deezer was also looking for a partner to introduce service in the United States, who was "able to provide us with a significant volume of subscribers" to help offset what he called the "unbelievably high" costs of entering the US market. As of December 2012, Deezer had about three million users paying for subscriptions, out of a monthly active user base of about seven million,
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay reportedly still being explored. According to the company's plans, Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay could operate 14 hours per day with a maximum output of 320 MW (nameplate capacity), and power the equivalent of around 155,000 homes. There are different ways to evaluate tidal energy output. The Government considered intermittency due to the tides and that the Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay would have had a load factor of 19% compared to around 50% for offshore wind power. However, as the monthly variation is predictable Tidal Lagoon energy could allow reduction in the amount of energy generated by gas-fired power plants. For