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Water utility Anglian Water has completed solar farms at five of its sites across the UK, significantly boosting on-site generation.

The government’s decision last year to remove the exemption for renewable energy from the Climate Change Levy (CCL) has substantially reduced the tax incentives for businesses to invest in large scale schemes, according to a senior environmental tax manager.

The government has unveiled its official plans to replace the current compensation scheme for energy intensive industries (EIIs) with a full exemption from costs associated with the Renewables Obligation (RO) and feed-in tariff (FiT) schemes, effectively driving up prices for other industries.

HP has become the latest global business to join the RE100 campaign, committing to meet all of its electricity demand with renewable energy.

Belfast International Airport is to source more than a quarter of its total annual electricity demand through a power purchase agreement (PPA) with solar developer Lightsource.

Wholesale electricity prices might be low at the moment, but they are expected to rise in the near future which would, at least in theory, prompt a surge in the amount businesses are charged for their power. Energy price volatility can have significant repurcussions on intensive industries, leaving many to consider just where might be best to source it from.

npower Business Solutions is aiming to deliver £1 billion in energy savings to its customers through the use of a carbon psychologist, who will help firms unlock the potential of behavioural change.

House builder Willmott Dixon is to adopt renewable energy for dozens of offices across the country as the company moves closer to halving its carbon emissions by 2020 compared to 2010.

McDonald’s has revealed to Clean Energy News that almost all of its locations in Great Britain are powered entirely by renewable energy, with the majority supplied through power purchase agreements (PPAs).