An international coalition of academic and industrial partners has been formed to create new ways to save operational energy costs and reduce the gap between predicted and actual energy performance in buildings.
Energy efficiency and demand-side reduction (DSR) are subjects “not well represented” within the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) thinking, a report published by the ECC select committee has found.
Energy suppliers have been given more time by the government to roll out smart metering on smaller non-domestic sites after around two-thirds of responses to a consultation opposed the government’s plans to retain the end-date in April 2016.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has said that demand side response, storage and smart network technologies are central tenets to its vision for a smarter energy system.
The commitments UK and international businesses make to reduce their carbon footprints will be “crucial” to the success of last Saturday’s COP21 summit, energy secretary Amber Rudd has said.
The Irish government has placed its citizens, businesses and communities at the heart of plans to improve the country’s energy efficiency levels in a new white paper published today.
The government has released plans to ensure reduced VAT is maintained on energy saving materials (ESMs) following a judgement earlier this year by the European Court (CJEU) that called for a 20% rate to be applied to all products.
The Mayor’s Office has countered claims that London mayor Boris Johnson struck a secret deal with ‘Big Six’ utility Npower, allowing them to exclusively provide energy to intensive users inside the capital.
A group of 114 companies including major multinationals such as Ikea, Walmart, Dell and Sony have signed up to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) at the COP21 summit in Paris.
Around two thirds of the 10,000 companies eligible for the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) have complied within the deadline, leaving more than 3,000 yet to contact the scheme’s regulator.
