The Department of Energy and Climate Change has said that demand side response, storage and smart network technologies are central tenets to its vision for a smarter energy system.
The government has confirmed feed-in tariff rates for commercial rooftop solar installations next year and announced it is to re-introduce pre-accreditation just months after scrapping it.
The commitments UK and international businesses make to reduce their carbon footprints will be “crucial” to the success of last Saturday’s COP21 summit, energy secretary Amber Rudd has said.
The Irish government has placed its citizens, businesses and communities at the heart of plans to improve the country’s energy efficiency levels in a new white paper published today.
Energy secretary Amber Rudd has been quizzed over the need for a concerted plan for heat and transport after the UK government committed to more ambitious climate goals at last week’s COP21 summit in Paris.
The Energy and Climate Change select committee has heard that future home energy efficiency policy needs to build demand from consumers and use the existing supply chain to meet it.
A group of 114 companies including major multinationals such as Ikea, Walmart, Dell and Sony have signed up to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) at the COP21 summit in Paris.
Businesses that ignore the threats of climate change and do not improve their efficiency practices are putting the lives of many people at risk, Unilever chief executive Paul Polman has said.
