An academy in Greater Manchester is set to save more than £2 million from its energy costs over the next 25 years following the installation of a new solar array and the start of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eden Sustainable.
Jeremy Corbyn will pledge to create an energy policy “for the 60 million, not the Big Six” when he sets out his energy policy later today, including plans for over a thousand local energy providers and community energy schemes.
The Treasury is to launch a consultation setting out proposals for transitional relief measures for companies affected by upcoming changes to business tax rates on solar installations.
UPM Shotton, the paper mill owned by Finnish paper and chemical giant UPM, is to meet 100% of its daylight energy demand after being connected to the UK’s largest private wire solar park.
Increasing the awareness of energy consumption and latterly carbon emissions at all levels within an organisation is certainly nothing new. Labels applied to light switches and heating controls imploring us to consider the impact of our actions (or lack of the) come in and out of fashion, but their first appearance probably ones more to the availability of sticky labels than professional energy management.
Energy union GMB has slammed an interview given by new National Grid executive director Nicola Shaw in which she lauded the potential of a smart energy revolution in the UK as “fanciful nonsense”.
UK supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has said that commercial rooftop solar remains a crucial element of its sustainability plans and revealed that it is currently experimenting with battery storage technologies.
Business customers of Good Energy are to be offered access to the Piclo renewable energy trading platform after the green utility made a commercial agreement with Open Utility.
