The Committee on Climate Change chairman Lord Deben has called upon the government to take urgent action to fill a policy gap created by clean energy cuts and sought clarification on where the government’s green policy is headed.
The Scottish Government has defied cuts to energy efficiency programmes initiated by Westminster to launch a £224 million scheme to help as many as 28,000 Scottish homes combat fuel poverty.
Renewable energy utilities Ecotricity and Good Energy have topped a consumer poll carried out by Which? magazine to determine the best and worst utilities in the UK.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that a replacement for the Zero Carbon Homes initiative, effectively scrapped by the government in July, is one of two “main concerns” for the Committee alongside the development of electric vehicles.
Schneider Electric and Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions have signed a five-year partnership that will see the companies work together to provide electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions.
The UK’s Electricity Storage Network (ESN) advocates and educates for a better understanding of the issues surrounding various storage technologies, and how they can be among a number of resources to help balance the country’s energy networks.
Despite there only being three months until the deadline for compliance with the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme, only 152 organisations have informed the Environment Agency that they are compliant, according to Savills Energy.
The office of low emission vehicles has confirmed that it will extend the current plug-in grant offered to electric vehicles out to February 2016 at a minimum.
