National Grid’s demand side balance reserve (DSBR) programme was too “blunt” and disruptive for consumers to be an attractive proposition, Open Energi’s David Hill has said.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has relented after coming under significant pressure following its surprise cut to support for biomass-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) installations earlier this year.
Independent electricity supplier Tempus Energy has closed its supply division less than a year after securing nearly £4 million of funding to support expansion plans, Clean Energy News can reveal.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Energy has launched an extension of the electric vehicle plug-in van grant, incorporating larger vehicles than before.
UK businesses have maintained a leading level of take-up of energy and environmental management systems (EMS) standards according to new figures released by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).
The Department for Transport (DfT) is to launch a £7.5 million scheme to support the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure at UK workplaces as part of a £35 million package announced this week.
A dairy company in Northern Ireland is expecting to make “significant” and “impactful” savings from a new solar farm planned for 2017, which is thought will be the largest scheme of its kind to be built on the island.
Clean Energy News talks to Open Energi's David Hill about the ever-increasing potential of demand side response technologies and how storage can allow companies to "go deeper" with their demand management.
Solar installations offer a cheaper alternative to biomass over the lifetime of a system according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which also claims that biomass produces higher carbon emissions than coal and natural gas.
