The energy management sector is this week bracing itself for sweeping reforms to business energy efficiency taxation and reporting procedures, as George Osborne prepares to deliver his latest Budget.
Lloyds Banking Group has launched a new £1 billion loan fund which will offer preferential rates for commercial real estate owners who meet energy efficiency targets.
There is a growing appetite among UK businesses to adopt longer payback periods for energy saving improvements according to energy management firm SPIE.
The new phase of the UK’s RE:FIT retrofit programme is to tackle what its programme delivery unit management has labelled a “loss of urgency” in energy efficiency deployment across the public sector.
The Scottish government has launched a major energy efficiency programme which could cut annual energy costs across public sector bills by an estimated £30 million.
Companies in the UK are missing out on the benefits of purchasing their power from renewable sources, a new report compiled by energy trading firm SmartestEnergy has claimed.
A report out today has suggested significant savings could be made from an energy efficiency feed-in tariff, but without funds available from central government this potential will likely remain unproven.
The World Green Building Council (WGBC) has launched what it claims to be the world’s largest collaborative project to improve the efficiency of existing buildings.
An energy efficiency feed-in tariff (FiT) could save consumers £2.4 billion a year by 2025, as well as remove the need for new power generation capacity to be built, according to a report out today.
