Criticism of the government’s planned sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) has continued to build after its own environment watchdog warned that privatisation should not go ahead unless the bank’s green remit can be protected.
An international coalition of academic and industrial partners has been formed to create new ways to save operational energy costs and reduce the gap between predicted and actual energy performance in buildings.
Energy efficiency and demand-side reduction (DSR) are subjects “not well represented” within the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) thinking, a report published by the ECC select committee has found.
Energy suppliers have been given more time by the government to roll out smart metering on smaller non-domestic sites after around two-thirds of responses to a consultation opposed the government’s plans to retain the end-date in April 2016.
Applications to the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) remained steady in November compared to the previous month but well below the those recorded in the same period last year according to the latest figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has said that demand side response, storage and smart network technologies are central tenets to its vision for a smarter energy system.
The government has confirmed feed-in tariff rates for commercial rooftop solar installations next year and announced it is to re-introduce pre-accreditation just months after scrapping it.
The commitments UK and international businesses make to reduce their carbon footprints will be “crucial” to the success of last Saturday’s COP21 summit, energy secretary Amber Rudd has said.
