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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.

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.

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.

Digital waste is an unknown but huge quantity – almost everything we do online increases our carbon footprint. Antivirus company McAfee has measured that the electricity needed just to transmit the trillions of spam e-mails sent every year is equivalent to powering two million homes in the United States and generates the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as that produced by three million cars.

The UK government is urging the Big Six energy suppliers to freeze energy prices until mid-2015, in an attempt to avoid further increases in energy bills ahead of the next election, reputable media sources have revealed.    The commitment would be a part of wider set of measures, that would ultimately lead to around 50 pounds being slashed off the typical dual-fuel

Government should extend the Green Deal programme to small and medium enterprises and the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) should offer low interest loans to these small companies in order to promote energy efficiency, a new

Despite pushing up their energy bills and claiming that they’re forced to do so in order to keep them afloat, the truth of the matter is that the UK’s Big Six energy suppliers have recorded some pretty hefty profits back in 2012, up by 75% compared to the previous year, a media news report has revealed.

Some of UK’s largest energy suppliers seem to be going through some tough times in terms of profits, while others, such as E.ON, are actually faring quite well, a new media report has revealed.

The latest round of above-inflation energy increases in energy bills will by no means be the last, the Whitehall’s spending watchdog warning that this year-to-year process is likely to continue for the next 17 years.

Implementing extensive energy efficiency measures across all buildings, whether old or new, is likely to become a must over the next years, as energy prices continue to grow year-to-year, an industry expert has warned during a speech at the Energy Live 2013 event.

Britain’s largest energy companies have been cleared of all charges related to the alleged price manipulation in the UK wholesale gas market after an investigation by energy regulator Ofgem and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found no compelling evidence to support the accusations.