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A competition that involved over 5,500 buildings across the US has helped cut energy usage by an average of 6% percent for each competitor, a recent news report has been able to reveal. The organizers, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), revealed that their event, the fifth-annual Energy Star Battle of the Buildings Competition: ‘Team […]

The Department of Energy & Climate Change has just published its updated Energy Technology List, with HeatingSave again featured as a top supplier of Building Energy Management Systems. The ETL (or Energy Technology Product List, ETPL) is a government-managed list of energy-efficient plant and machinery, such as boilers, electric motors, and air conditioning and refrigeration […]

A Norfolk poultry company has managed to cut its energy bills by switching from a gas boiler to a biomass one, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find. Traditional Norfolk Poultry (TNP) used gas heaters to keep chicks warm before swapping to biomass boilers at the end of 2014. […]

Almost 68 percent of employees are interested in saving energy while at work, a YouGov survey has recently been able to reveal. More than 60% of the 1,118 workers surveyed said the businesses they work in have invested in saving energy, while nearly half (43%) agreed their organisation ensures all lights and computers are switched […]

The UK’s Big Six energy suppliers are facing increased pressure from the Government to pass on the savings attained due to the fall in gas and electricity wholesale costs to their customers, rather than keeping them as profits for the shareholders, a news report can reveal. The Amber Rudd, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, […]

One of the UK’s best-known energy suppliers has just launched a service designed to help companies meet the requirements of the new Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS), a recent news report has been able to reveal. The new service introduced by GDF SUEZ Energy UK has two parts; the first phase looks at the existing […]

A new energy bills that focuses specifically on energy efficiency could help the UK save up to 12 billion pounds per year in energy costs, various organizations and groups have argued. The proposed ‘Cost Effective Energy Measures Bill’ aims to promote measures including energy efficiency, community energy and more efficient use and production of energy […]

The new Centre for Medicine to be built at the University of Leicester is set to become the largest building in the UK to meet the Passivhaus criteria for energy efficiency, a recent news report has been able to reveal. The £42m Centre will record a ‘-2’ energy performance asset rating and comes complete with […]

Increased policy support for energy-efficiency programs can save 10 percent in energy bills, a recent report by the UK Energy Research Centre’s (UKERC) Technology and Policy Assessment (TPA) has been able to reveal. Called “Energy Efficiency Evaluation: The evidence for real energy savings from energy efficiency programmes in the household sector,” the report was able […]

A well-known UK retailer has managed to cut its energy bills by around £500,000 on its energy bill last year after training its staff to reduce energy usage, a recent news report has been able to reveal. UK DIY store Wickes trained 146 member across 230 stores after store manager Neil Chetwynd noticed an overspend […]

The primary energy consumption in the UK rose by 1.7% on a fuel input basis but fell by 0.7% on a temperature adjusted basis between December 2014 and February 2015, recent statistical figures released by the DECC (Department of Energy and Climate Change) have been able to reveal. Indigenous energy production fell by 2.7% driven […]

The UK has become the only country where energy usage has actually gone down over the past 50 years, newly released energy data from BP has been able to reveal. Energy consumption has gone down by close to five per cent compared to 1965, despite peaking back in 2005, figures revealed. Consumption was down 6.3 […]