Financial services company Legal & General has made a significant commitment to the UK clean energy industry after investing in an onshore wind firm and committing to a portfolio of projects through the first close of a fund targeting €250m.
The government is to begin commissioning new homes directly in a bid to deliver the one million promised by 2020 before new standards for energy efficiency come into force.
Energy efficiency firm AgilityEco has won a contract to offer consultancy services to Ofgem as it seeks to extend the Warm Home Discount (WHD) to park home residents.
Non-domestic electricity prices in the UK have levelled off in the UK, standing at 10.45p/kWh for an average-sized business after rising marginally in Q1, DECC statistics have revealed.
A member of the Committee on Climate Change has called on the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to use the Housing and Planning Bill to build towards European standards for low energy consumption, due to come into force at the end of 2020.
Compensation for energy intensive industries (EIIs) in the UK for renewables subsidies has cleared state aid, potentially saving such businesses hundreds of millions of pounds.
Criticism of the government’s planned sale of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) has continued to build after its own environment watchdog warned that privatisation should not go ahead unless the bank’s green remit can be protected.
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.
