Local authorities are still willing and able to invest in solar energy if installers can make the business case to do so, according to Nottingham City councillor Alan Clark.

Green utility Good Energy has said it intends to challenge an Advertising Standards Authority ruling which said rival supplier Ecotricity was within its right to claim it offered Britain’s ‘greenest tariffs’.

Dutch brewery Heineken has lauded the success of its corporate sustainability scheme and revealed it has saved the company more than €70 million in energy costs since 2009.

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).