Advanced technology firm Lockheed Martin has achieved the ISO50001 energy management standard for its Ampthill site following an energy efficiency drive that cut electricity bills by more than £150,000.
The issue of excess winter deaths was once again pulled into the spotlight yesterday after Labour MP Dan Jarvis raised the issue during Prime Minister’s Questions.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) issued guidance to firms who have completed audits under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS).
The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) is to launch a new research project seeking to identify ways to close the gap between the designed performance of buildings and how they actually perform once built and occupied.
The Daily Telegraph has withdrawn so-called energy efficiency monitors fitted beneath staff desks after a number of employees expressed concerns over their privacy.
The UK government has saved more than £164 million on its energy bills since 2010 but revealed that it had missed ambitious targets to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% in 2015.
UK energy provider OVO Energy has awarded a £5.5 million contract to Trojan Utilities which will see the company install hundreds of thousands of smart meters in homes and businesses.
Amber Rudd has claimed good progress is being made on the government’s smart meter roll-out initiative, which she says will be “of huge advantage” to energy bill payers in the UK.
Minimise Energy has won a series of contracts to supply and install LED lighting across a number of London sites, including 18 of the capital’s fire stations under the Mayor of London’s RE:FIT programme.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has opposed the government’s Housing and Planning Bill, claiming it represents a squandered opportunity for improving the energy efficiency of new homes built in the UK.
