New research has suggested that a higher proportion of commercial properties than previously thought will fall under the new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) regulations due to updated building regulations affecting EPC ratings.
German energy giant E.On has set its sights on being one of the “pacesetters” of the digitalisation of the energy market as it looks to evolve following the spinoff of its nuclear business.
Nothern Ireland’s Department for the Economy (DfE) is to launch an eight month examination of all installations under the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), having launched a tender to procure inspection services.
European renewables companies have become the latest to question the ambition of the European Commission’s clean energy package, launched last November.
The government’s £11 billion roll-out of smart meters must be judged by the long-term benefits it offers consumers, energy minister Jesse Norman has insisted.
The prime minister has said the business sector and government have an “important role to play” in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set at COP21 in 2015, claiming it is “vital” that both need to work together to meet the country’s climate targets.
A new carbon price will be set by the UK at the start of the next Parliament following the country’s exit from the EU Emissions Trading System, according to documents released for today’s Budget.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has offered nothing to address concerns over the increased business rates applied to properties with solar in his maiden budget delivered earlier today.
The typical value of energy efficiency projects being taken on by consumers has dropped according to the latest survey from EEVS and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which recorded growth in the number of projects valued between £50,000-100,000.
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has disputed comments made by a Conservative MP last week that the government’s carbon plan would be published as late as June.
