The biggest threat to the UK’s clean energy sector is a lack of certainty and clarity over government policy Rob Gross, director at Imperial College London’s centre for energy policy, has said.
Biomass firm Innasol has called on the UK government to extend its commitments to the Renewable Heat Incentive if it is to reach its goal after last week’s degression.
New research conducted by the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) has claimed the UK could save up to £3 billion a year in energy expenditure by implementing “immediate, practical, cost effective steps” to improve efficiency.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change has revealed plans to carry out sweeping reforms of business energy efficiency tax incentives and reporting procedures, including the potential abolition of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme.
The Committee on Climate Change chairman Lord Deben has called upon the government to take urgent action to fill a policy gap created by clean energy cuts and sought clarification on where the government’s green policy is headed.
Renewable energy utilities Ecotricity and Good Energy have topped a consumer poll carried out by Which? magazine to determine the best and worst utilities in the UK.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that a replacement for the Zero Carbon Homes initiative, effectively scrapped by the government in July, is one of two “main concerns” for the Committee alongside the development of electric vehicles.
The UK’s Electricity Storage Network (ESN) advocates and educates for a better understanding of the issues surrounding various storage technologies, and how they can be among a number of resources to help balance the country’s energy networks.
Despite there only being three months until the deadline for compliance with the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme, only 152 organisations have informed the Environment Agency that they are compliant, according to Savills Energy.
