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In a bid to boost the UK construction industry, the government has pledged to invest up to an impressive 150 million pounds into this sector over the next five years.

As part of the Scottish Government’s Resource Efficient Scotland programme, Scotland’s Environment Secretary, Richard Lochhead, has launched the Resource Efficient House on the BRE Innovation Park at

The DECC (Department of Energy and Climate Change) has launched a new grant funding programme designed to help Local Authorities (LAs) in England and Wales to develop new heating and cooling networks, and expand existing networks.

Energy companies were quick to answer the recent statements from UK’s Labour party leader regarding a possible government-imposed 2-year freeze of energy prices, multiple news reports have revealed.

Around 56% of all the households who’ve successfully completed a Green Deal assessment have also implemented at least one energy efficiency measure, the latest figures from the DECC (Department for Energy and Climate Change) have revealed.

Energy supplier E.ON has pledged its support for a full “industry-wide end” to automatic energy contract rollovers, in order to help small and medium-sized businesses save more on their energy bills, a news report on the matter reveals.

Shell and BP have both announced colossal profits but seem slow to reduce fuel prices. Shell’s chief executive Peter Voser gave growth in production and exploration of new oil fields as reasons for the company raising its profits for the first quarter to $4.9bn, almost 50% up on the same time last year.

Climate change has hardly been mentioned in this year’s general election. Four parties – Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Green – were represented in the capital on a panel (chaired by The Independent newspaper) called Ask The Climate Question, a coalition of nine environment and development charities and pressure groups, which has been trying to bring global warming back to the forefront of the election agenda.

A price comparison website has urged consumers to switch to fixed fuel tariffs after warnings came of another round of price rises; however installing HeatingSave is a wiser move to save money.

On the market are many energy-saving gadgets which are claimed to be making a big difference to the amount of energy you use in your daily life. Among them is a Radiator Booster, which circulates the hot air that rises off your radiator much more quickly around the room. It claims to reduce energy costs for households by about £10 per month because it saves the boiler from doing as much work.

First it was the likes of BP and Shell. Now it is the turn of oil company Total to report much-improved profits for the first three months of the year. Net profit came in at $3bn (£2bn), a rise of almost 10% on the same period a year earlier. Total are under-fire, as a French judge filed preliminary charges against the company earlier this month, accusing it of bribing Iraqi officials while Saddam Hussein was in power in order to secure oil supplies.

Energy saving has received a blow as various organisations were assessing how hard they would be hit by the £250 million of cuts imposed by the coalition government.