A study of job satisfaction and pay within the environmental and sustainability professions has uncovered evidence of a burgeoning pay gap within the industry.

Cheshire East Council has partnered with renewables developer ENGIE to develop district heating networks, promising to save local businesses money.

Water utility Anglian Water has completed solar farms at five of its sites across the UK, significantly boosting on-site generation.

The government’s decision last year to remove the exemption for renewable energy from the Climate Change Levy (CCL) has substantially reduced the tax incentives for businesses to invest in large scale schemes, according to a senior environmental tax manager.

The government has unveiled its official plans to replace the current compensation scheme for energy intensive industries (EIIs) with a full exemption from costs associated with the Renewables Obligation (RO) and feed-in tariff (FiT) schemes, effectively driving up prices for other industries.

The Environment Agency (EA) has received payments from a number of public and private sector organisations after they failed to fall in line with the requirements of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).

More than 400 churches across the UK have agreed to switch to renewable energy providers, representing over £1 million in energy bills that will be used to pay for clean energy.

HP has become the latest global business to join the RE100 campaign, committing to meet all of its electricity demand with renewable energy.

Belfast International Airport is to source more than a quarter of its total annual electricity demand through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with solar developer Lightsource.

Wholesale electricity prices might be low at the moment, but they are expected to rise in the near future which would, at least in theory, prompt a surge in the amount businesses are charged for their power. Energy price volatility can have significant repurcussions on intensive industries, leaving many to consider just where might be best to source it from.