German car manufacturer BMW has topped Corporate Knights’ ‘Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations’ list while nine UK-headquartered firms made the grade.

The Scottish government has unveiled a new £14 million energy efficiency fund that will encourage businesses to work with local authorities to fund improvement measures.

New figures for the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) have shown that accredited installations under the scheme fell dramatically in the final quarter of 2015.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed its policy shift away from the able-to-pay domestic energy efficiency sector at a launch event for a new research project seeking to link energy costs with mortgage lending.

The BRE National Solar Centre has published a guide designed to help small businesses interested in purchasing a solar-plus-storage system to reduce energy costs.

Lord Bourne has sparked fresh concerns over the future of domestic energy efficiency policy after revealing an able-to-pay scheme to replace the Green Deal is not likely to be in place until after the introduction of the new ECO scheme in 2017/18.

Nissan has announced that it is set to make a significant investment in the development of the next generation of electric vehicle (EV) batteries at its manufacturing base in Sunderland.

Companies signed up to a target of sourcing all of their electricity needs from renewable energy sources are half way towards achieving this goal, according to the latest report from the RE100 campaign.

Ireland’s energy minister has called for a review of the government’s capital spending plans to free up more investment funds for energy efficiency programmes.

A replacement scheme for the able-to-pay domestic energy efficiency sector is to be delayed until 2017 with only a set of principles to be outlined by the end of the current calendar year, according to the parliamentary under secretary of state for climate change.