The Northern Ireland Sustainable Energy Programme (NISEP) has been extended for a further year, casting confusion over the government’s proposals to replace it with the EnergyWise scheme consulted on earlier this year.

The managing director of Ecotricity’s Electric Highway has revealed the company is losing hundreds of thousands of pounds a year from the charging network, claiming the business model behind charging drivers for its use is “not very good”.

The University of the West of England (UWE) has signed up to a 100% green electricity tariff to ensure that all of the energy consumed on its premises comes from clean sources.

Automobile manufacturer Toyota has been crowned as the most sustainable company in the world in the Carbon Clean 200 report.

Global alcohol company Diageo intends to derive all of its power from renewable sources by 2030 after seeing its consumption fall 10% throughout its latest reporting year.

The Go Ultra Low scheme has awarded special status to 65 UK organisations since May 2016 in recognition of their commitment to adopt electric vehicles as a larger proportion of their fleets.

Large energy users have called on the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to prioritise the creation of a long term policy framework while questions remain over the future importance of energy and climate change policy at the new Whitehall office.

Nottingham City Council has met its climate change targets four years ahead of schedule following a number of energy saving initiatives and significant investments in renewables across the city.

Virgin Media reduced its carbon emissions year-on-year by more than 6% in 2015, and the company said it owes much of this reduction to various energy efficiency projects and a trial run of on-site generation.