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 suppliers have been given more time by the government to roll out smart metering on smaller non-domestic sites after around two-thirds of responses to a consultation opposed the government’s plans to retain the end-date in April 2016.
The Irish government has placed its citizens, businesses and communities at the heart of plans to improve the country’s energy efficiency levels in a new white paper published today.
Local communities in Ireland are set to benefit from €20 million under the 2016 Better Energy Communities scheme, which will fund energy efficiency improvements across a range of projects.
The Energy and Climate Change select committee has heard that future home energy efficiency policy needs to build demand from consumers and use the existing supply chain to meet it.
Two energy efficiency companies have been named among the fastest growing private companies in the UK despite the “tumultuous” year for the market following significant changes to government policy.
A group of business leaders and trade association heads have called on the chair of the Energy and Climate Change (ECC) Select Committee to investigate the government’s decision to abandon its commitment to a zero-carbon building standard.
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced that it has raised over £10 billion in green infrastructure investment in the last three years as it prepares to enter the private sector.
The chief executive of the Green Deal Finance Company has pointed to government changes to the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) as a key reason for the failure of the home energy efficiency scheme.
