The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has demanded that the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) commits to greater transparency over energy bills and an annual report detailing green levy costs.
London’s deputy mayor for the environment Shirley Rodrigues has said that the mayor’s flagship energy scheme ‘Energy for Londoners’ is to go live by April.
Lord’s cricket ground – otherwise known as England’s Home of Cricket – has become the first cricket ground in the country to run on 100% renewable energy.
Provisional contracts worth a combined capacity of over 209MW have been awarded to demand side response (DSR) technologies in the latest capacity market auction.
Six more companies have been fined a combined total of £41,480 for failure to comply with the requirements of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), with -99p Stores and ALS Testing both hit with the biggest penalties.
Tetra Pak has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40% by 2030 through a combination of energy efficiency, investment in renewable energy procurement and onsite generation capabilities.
The British government has said it is “considering all options” regarding the union’s future relationship with the European Union relating to energy in a move which will offer scant clarity to Brexit’s potential impact on energy bills.
Falling costs of solar PV and electric vehicles (EVs) could curtail new demand for coal and oil as early as 2020, according to a new report by the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London and the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
