The Solar Cloth Company, specialising in flexible, lightweight solar cloth applicable to any type of new or existing building, has finished up a successful year by winning multiple awards for its innovative technology.

Energy storage will be the most important “complementary technology” to work alongside renewables and energy efficiency, secretary of state for climate change and energy Ed Davey has told Next Energy News.

Former climate change minister Greg Barker is has been named as the new chairman of Boris Johnson’s London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC).

German automobile giant BMW has installed two electric vehicle charging street lights at its BMW Welt exhibition centre.

Caroline Flint, Labour MP for Don Valley and shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change, released the party’s Green Paper: End to Cold Homes, in Hastings on Monday.

Britian’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) will grant a £500 million allowance to the Visual Impact Provision project dedicated to beautifying the English and Welsh landscapes visually impacted by the National Grid’s infrastructure.

Anyone wanting to buy or sell renewable energy will soon be able to trade online with their neighbours.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned that the political “opportunism is trumping pragmatism” on UK energy, undermining business confidence in the sector.

The renewables industry should be wary of thinking that there will be a support mechanism-fuelled “gold rush” on energy storage in the UK, according to the director of the Electricity Storage Network (ESN).