Some of the UK’s largest development and environment groups have urged the country’s next prime minister to slam Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

Commercial and industrial (C&I) businesses are to be offered free energy storage services from Omnio, a new firm set up to address the ‘overlooked’ market of small, distributed energy users.

Energy giant EDF has set its sights on catering for the UK’s commercial energy services market by acquiring electrical engineering firm Imtech.

Good Energy has raised more than £10 million from its second corporate bond, which it will use to pursue its new strategy.

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has updated its Plan A sustainability strategy with pledges including delivering half of UK property peak-energy demand flexibly by 2025, using clean and renewable technologies, before reaching 100% renewable electricity by at most 2035.

French car maker Renault has brokered a partnership to provide second-life battery units to home storage supplier Powervault.

The leaders of the UK’s top political parties have condemned Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement, with some branding the decision “appalling”.