London’s zero carbon city plans kick-started with £500 million energy efficiency fund
The Mayor of London’s Energy Efficiency Fund (MEEF) has secured £500 million of funding as the capital’s bid to become a zero carbon city by 2050 shifts into gear.
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Mayor Sadiq Khan to buy local energy for Londoners
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has kickstarted his flagship Energy for Londoners scheme with a series of new initiatives to boost local energy use in the capital.
Vulnerable customers at risk of missing out as energy transition takes hold
Innovations to help vulnerable energy customers are at risk of sliding down supplier agendas as a result of the sheer pace of change elsewhere, a new report has warned.
CCC recommendations: sector by sector breakdown
Today the Committee on Climate Change has delivered its verdict on the government’s Clean Growth Strategy, ultimately calling for more urgent action or risk failing to meet its statutory climate targets.
Wouter Kimman, data scientist at Open Energi, takes a look back at the breakthrough technology and renewable energy records that typified 2017 and explores why they underpin a greater need for flexibility within the UK's grid.
Recent research carried out by Centrica found that more than four in five UK businesses had experienced at least one power failure in the past year, opening up the potential for serious consequences on productivity. Clean Energy News spoke to Tim Wynn-Jones, head of distributed energy sales in the UK for Centrica, to understand why UK businesses need an energy resilience strategy moving forward.
Clean energy advocates recognised in New Year’s honours list
A number of prominent advocates of smarter, low carbon energy have been recognised in the 2018 New Year’s honours list.
Legal & General leads investment in DSR platform provider Upside Energy
Manchester-based Upside Energy has completed a Series A investment round, co-led by Legal & General’s principal investment arm.
Clean energy stories of the year 2017: January – March
As 2017 draws to a close, Clean Energy News looks back on what has been a considerably interesting year for the energy transition. In the first of a series of articles running this week, we recap the best stories of 2017, beginning today with January through March.