Smart meter installation firm Smart Metering Systems (SMS) has bolstered its position within the market by acquiring two of its rivals and securing two further contracts.
The sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) into private ownership has continued to move forward with the bank outlining earlier this week how it intends to incorporate a ‘special share’ to protect its green purposes.
Aberdeen Asset Management is to launch a new sustainability framework intended to stimulate efficiency refurbishments and new development projects in the UK.
The government needs to publish “an effective plan” to tackle the decarbonisation of heat and transport sectors, according to the CBI’s senior policy advisor on climate change.
The chief executive of environmental think-tank ESG has thrown his weight behind calls for energy efficiency to be recognised as a national infrastructure priority in light of agreements made at COP21.
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme is to be abolished, with increases in the Climate Change Levy (CCL) to rise in 2019 to compensate.
Plans for a ‘Cleantech cluster’ to be developed in west London have been unveiled as part of a report from the London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC).
