The European Union has confirmed plans to increase its energy efficiency target to 30% by 2030 in an effort to reduce dependency on energy imports while creating jobs and increasing GDP across the trading bloc.

Businesses are demanding greater certainty around the future of energy policy in the UK after last week’s Autumn Statement left them “disappointed at the lack of focus on energy”, according to an open letter to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Walkers Crisps has successfully reduced the water and carbon emissions used in the growing of its potatoes by 50% since 2011 after implementing a series of measuring techniques to identify where savings could be made.

A coalition of organisations across the energy sector is calling on the government to take action after an energy audit found that the efficiency of UK electricity supply has remained broadly unchanged since 2010.

German automobile giant BMW is to launch a new ‘Digital Charging Service’ for its portfolio of electric vehicles early next year, promising to integrate EVs with national grids and on-site renewable generators.

Almost a quarter of UK universities are expected to miss the higher education (HE) sector’s carbon reduction targets for 2020 according to People and Planet, which has blamed the removal of government and funding council support for ‘dwindling’ performance.

Every organisation is concerned with the efficient usage of energy and in turn, the direct benefits that efficiency optimisation can deliver. In order to realise the cost savings associated with more efficient energy usage, the measurement of electrical power has become an increasingly critical element of any energy performance improvement project.

Hampshire County Council has saved almost £3 million from a series of energy efficiency initiatives, cutting its carbon emissions by more than a third in the process.

UK energy supplier GB Energy Supply has ceased trading, blaming “swift and significant” increases in energy prices over recent months.