Reports have emerged of a possible workplace charging grant to incentivise wider use of electric vehicles (EVs) by businesses around the UK, sparking confusion from the charging point sector.

A number of multinationals pledged to support the transition to clean energy in various ways over the course of last week’s Seventh Clean Energy Ministerial summit, held in San Francisco.

Both consumers and suppliers in the energy efficiency sector favour a remain vote in the upcoming EU referendum, according to a new survey which suggested a series of possible consequences to leaving Europe.

David Hunt of Hyperion Executive Search spoke to Clean Energy News at the launch of Clean Energy Live. The show takes place for the first time ever in October and incorporates the existing annual Solar Energy UK (SEUK) exhibition and conference, now in its seventh year.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has claimed that the average cost of installing solar PV increased at the start of the year, coinciding with a stark reduction in feed-in tariff subsidies.

Nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards, sponsored by Trina Solar, are currently open. Returning for its fourth consecutive year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 5 October during the Clean Energy Live exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.

Energy efficiency consumers are tightening their spending plans according to a new survey which found that median expenditure on a project had reached its lowest point in almost four years.

Nissan has completed a new solar farm at its manufacturing site in Sunderland which alongside ten existing wind turbines will supply 7% of the of the plant’s electricity requirements.

Limited sustainability investment activity is putting decarbonisation in the commercial sector out of step with global progress and, more importantly, national targets for emissions reduction according to a new report.