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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

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.

The large majority of SMEs are bracing for some significant hikes in terms of energy-related costs, a brand-new market research study has revealed.

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.

London’s green economy has recorded a significant growth over the past five years, with more than 9,200 green businesses employing an impressive 163,500 people, a news report on the matter has revealed.

Although the amount of shale gas available in the UK is still the topic of debate, it would seem that more and more energy suppliers are becoming in the country’s potential for successful exploration, the latest to join the fray being French energy giant Total.

Six west London boroughs – Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Hounslow could attain energy savings of up to an impressive 25%, should they implement specific, effective energy-saving measures, a new survey by

The Cambridge Retrofit Project is a landmark community-scale energy efficiency initiative to retrofit buildings over the next 30 years, helping make the Cambridge area the first to reach national carbon reduction targets, namely to reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.

SMEs will be able to access cheaper gas and electricity prices, while also being given free advice on how to avoid energy contract pitfalls as a part of the brand-new Ready to Switch for Businesses scheme unveiled at the Local Government Association annual conference.

Business-focused energy provider Gazprom Energy has just revealed a new gas tariff targeting specifically mid-sized businesses, a news report on the matter reveals.

In a bid to help non-domestic customers implement energy efficiency retrofit projects, the BRE (Building Research Establishment) has partnered with Sustainable Development Capital Ltd in order to launch a new scheme, designed to provide capital investment for the aforementioned work

The only way in which the Government can stick to its legal commitments of an 80% carbon reduction by 2050 is to make sure that the policies it has put in place attain their project efficiency levels.