smart meters

The Mark Group, the residential and commercial installer that entered administration yesterday after SunEdison sold it back to its management team, is to repurpose itself in the energy efficiency market when it emerges from administration proceedings.

The UK’s drive to both build more energy efficient homes and retrofit existing ones with energy efficient measures could lead to an 80% increase in asthma sufferers as indoor air quality suffers.

The Republic of Ireland government is to launch a €130 million fund for energy efficiency and domestic renewables in a bid to combat fuel poverty in the country.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd has said the UK can become “a home for energy innovation” and has pledged to support businesses working on new energy efficiency technologies.

The Scottish Government has defied cuts to energy efficiency programmes initiated by Westminster to launch a £224 million scheme to help as many as 28,000 Scottish homes combat fuel poverty.

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 government has reaffirmed its pledge to install 53 million smart meters across the UK by 2020 in its official response to the Competition Markets Authority’s (CMA) provisional findings in its energy market investigation.

The UK government has been urged to make energy efficiency a national infrastructure priority in a report by the influential Aldersgate Group.

The Competitions Market Authority (CMA) has ruled that “competition in the wholesale gas and electricity generation markets works well” in its provisional findings.

Energy management company, Schneider Electric has revealed that it has won a contract with distributed network operator, Electricity North West to install a Distribution Management System (DMS).