energy efficiency

Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) has signed five new framework agreements with independent energy suppliers.

Lockheed Martin’s Ampthill site was recently awarded ISO50001 certification for energy management after an energy efficiency drive saw bills come down by more than £150,000. Director of operations Graham Harraway explains how the standard was achieved and what savings the company has made as a result.

Barnsley Council has been granted the Carbon Trust Standard mark of excellence for its recent efforts to reduce its carbon emissions.

Advanced technology firm Lockheed Martin has achieved the ISO50001 energy management standard for its Ampthill site following an energy efficiency drive that cut electricity bills by more than £150,000.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) issued guidance to firms who have completed audits under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS).

The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) is to launch a new research project seeking to identify ways to close the gap between the designed performance of buildings and how they actually perform once built and occupied.

The Daily Telegraph has withdrawn so-called energy efficiency monitors fitted beneath staff desks after a number of employees expressed concerns over their privacy.

The UK government has saved more than £164 million on its energy bills since 2010 but revealed that it had missed ambitious targets to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% in 2015.

UK energy provider OVO Energy has awarded a £5.5 million contract to Trojan Utilities which will see the company install hundreds of thousands of smart meters in homes and businesses.

Amber Rudd has claimed good progress is being made on the government’s smart meter roll-out initiative, which she says will be “of huge advantage” to energy bill payers in the UK.