Martin McGuinness has resigned as deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland in protest to Arlene Foster’s handling of the rapidly developing scandal surrounding the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).

The Welsh government has announced plans for a new £40 million scheme designed to help farmers reduce their carbon emissions.

New grant funding has been awarded to an energy demand response project using machine learning and artificial intelligence to manage a portfolio of storage assets and provide real-time energy reserves to the grid.

Former energy minister Lord Greg Barker has written to prime minister Theresa May to voice concerns over the government’s divestment of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) and urge for a rethink.

Labour has placed climate action at the heart of its plans for industrial strategy after including it as one of the key priorities within a public consultation published yesterday.

The Natural History Museum is celebrating racking up more than £11 million in savings by adopting various on-site energy generation technologies.

A project to replace thousands of streetlights with low-energy LEDs in the Scottish Borders has been expanded by a third and accelerated to complete two years ahead of schedule.

Cambridge’s new train station will source 10% of its electricity from a 49kW solar array when it opens in May. The 196 panel system is being installed on the pitched roof of the station’s cycle shelter.

A school in Lincolnshire is aiming to become one of the greenest in the UK with a £900,000 investment in renewables.

The government’s upcoming Carbon Plan should include a specific strategy for promoting microgeneration, efficiency, storage and demand response across the UK small business community, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).