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

Bentley Motors has been given the green light to construct a 3MW solar carport at its manufacturing facility in Cheshire, which would become the UK’s largest when finished.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has handed businesses seeking to adopt electric vehicles a new tax break as part of today’s Autumn Statement with a 100% first-year allowance (FYA) for expenditure on electric charge points.

All the latest reaction and insight to chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement, delivered this afternoon.

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is seeking views on how to drastically change the consumption of heat and energy in non-domestic properties after uncovering potential savings of £1.3 billion a year from private sector initiatives.

Low carbon transport body Cenex has launched a technology demonstration trial of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems in three major European cities.

The average business investment in energy efficiency projects has increased more than five-fold since the first three months of the year, a surge which could be attributable to Brexit and fears over increasing equipment costs.

A new survey has uncovered significant potential for small businesses to adopt increased energy efficiency measures after just one in ten UK SME business owners were found to believe they have decreased energy consumption over the last year.

A number of major businesses of the Prince of Wales’ Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) have said that the international community must start to put 2050 climate strategies into place now if the world is to meet more pressing aims.