Aviva has cut its global carbon emissions by well over a third since 2010 through energy-saving initiatives like installing solar panels and LED lighting at its offices.
Aviva Insurance has moved one step closer to its goal of using 100% renewable energy to meet its electricity demand after installing solar panels on three of its UK buildings.
Tata Steel could see the energy bills at its Scunthorpe steelworks increase this summer when a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a nearby solar farm comes to an end.
A technology platform enabling management of distributed energy assets has attracted significant levels of new funding, allowing it to move from pilot schemes to commercial deployment.
Local authorities are still willing and able to invest in solar energy if installers can make the business case to do so, according to Nottingham City councillor Alan Clark.
Green utility Good Energy has said it intends to challenge an Advertising Standards Authority ruling which said rival supplier Ecotricity was within its right to claim it offered Britain’s ‘greenest tariffs’.
Dutch brewery Heineken has lauded the success of its corporate sustainability scheme and revealed it has saved the company more than €70 million in energy costs since 2009.
