The Green Investment Bank has agreed to part-fund a streetlight conversion programme for Kent County Council which will see 120,000 traditional streetlights replaced with more efficient alternatives.

Clean Energy News talks to Robert Owens, vice president of demand side management at SmartestEnergy, about demand side response, alternatives to the aborted DSBR tender and how DSR approaches can help alleviate any potential bill increases as a result of P272.

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.

Coffee giant Starbucks has expanded its 100% renewable energy target to include all of its company-owned stores in Europe.