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.
The government needs to publish “an effective plan” to tackle the decarbonisation of heat and transport sectors, according to the CBI’s senior policy advisor on climate change.
The latest news, views and commentary as the clean energy sectors brace for what might lie within chancellor George Osborne's red briefcase this afternoon.
A report out today has suggested significant savings could be made from an energy efficiency feed-in tariff, but without funds available from central government this potential will likely remain unproven.
An energy efficiency feed-in tariff (FiT) could save consumers £2.4 billion a year by 2025, as well as remove the need for new power generation capacity to be built, according to a report out today.
Only 5% of professionals responsible for procurement of energy consuming equipment are highly confident in energy saving claims made by manufacturers, according to a new report identifying a series of barriers to increasing levels of energy efficiency.
A report released this week has called for the government to adopt a renewed focus on energy efficiency over the next decade as a way to reduce energy demand and costs to consumers.
UK businesses must change their perception of energy efficiency if technologies and professionals in the space are to achieve their potential, experts contributing to round table discussions have concluded.
A member of the Committee on Climate Change has called on the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to use the Housing and Planning Bill to build towards European standards for low energy consumption, due to come into force at the end of 2020.
Energy efficiency and demand-side reduction (DSR) are subjects “not well represented” within the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) thinking, a report published by the ECC select committee has found.
