The Liberal Democrats are aiming to stimulate at least £100 billion of private investment in the UK’s renewable energy infrastructure and want a third of the UK’s energy demand to be met from renewable sources by 2020.
The unforeseen dramatic drop in oil price has dented the business case for renewables, according to Nancy Hobhouse, Carbon Plan manager at John Lewis Partnership.
SolarCity has announced a new partnership with smart-metering company Nest, starting with an offer of 10,000 Nest thermostats to new customers in California.
The Labour Party is aiming to create one million additional “green jobs” and establish the UK as a “world leader” in low carbon technologies over the next decade.
Almost 60% of companies who will be liable to take part in the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) have not started work on the required assessment, according to a new survey.
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change have agreed on terms for a £200 million international green investment pilot programme.
The government’s plans to implement a near-universal rollout of smart meters to properties risks becoming a “costly failure”, according to the latest report from the energy and climate change committee.
