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Local councils in Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland and Sunderland have joined forces to launch a new initiative aimed at helping small and medium businesses save money on energy, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The Business Energy Saving Team (BEST) is a new fully-funded energy efficiency service […]

The Building Regulations are set to change next year and with them, a new CO2 emissions factor for buildings will become the norm, a recent expert report has warned. The biggest change is around CO2 emission factors that set out how many kgCO2 per kWh a fuel uses, most notably for electricity which has reduced […]

Ofgem’s energy price cap for consumers on default tariffs has come into force on the 1’st of January and is expected to save around 11 million people an average of £76 a year, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The cap limits the cost of each energy unit rather than total bills, […]

Energy suppliers added £840 million onto total national gas and electricity bills, costing each household an additional £74, a recent report from auto-switching service Look After My Bills has been able to suggest. Over the course of 2018, energy companies carried out 57 price rises, compared to just 15 in 2017 – historically, there were […]

The city of New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has recently announced that the New York State Public Service Commission approved two initiatives to dramatically increase New York’s energy efficiency and energy storage targets to combat climate change. The new energy efficiency target for investor-owned utilities will more than double utility energy efficiency progress by 2025, […]

Some of the largest companies in Europe are asking the EU to set a legally binding ‘net-zero’ emissions target for 2050 with the aim to achieve complete carbon neutrality over the course of the next three decades, a recent news report has been able to suggest. Speaking at a meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council […]

Building management systems (BMS) are just one of the multiple energy saving measures that are set to be deployed across several hospitals and educational institutions in Jamaica, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The sum of $989.78 million has been provided in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure under […]

A New York school is set to deploy a building energy monitoring system, as well as multiple energy saving measures in a bit to cut their bills, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. Alfred-Almond school has entered an energy performance contract that could save the district thousands of […]

The Irish Government has launched a fund of up to €6 million (£5.2m) for the design, construction and management of energy efficient buildings, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The public and private sector applicants will currently be in the design phase of planning capital projects for new […]

Building management systems (BMS) are some of the top technical solutions to help small and medium enterprises achieve significant energy savings. And now, SMEs will be able to gain easier access to such energy saving solutions due to the Boosting Access for SMEs to Energy Efficiency (BASEE) competition, a new scheme setup by the UK […]

The building automation systems market is set to record a very strong level of growth over the next few years, reaching an estimated USD 121.5 billion by 2024, a recent market research report has been able to suggest. The “Building Automation System Market by Communication Technology, Offering (Facilities Management Systems, Security & Access Control Systems, […]

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy recorded an 8% rise in deployment during the fourth quarter of 2018, with around 13.8 million smart and advanced meters now being in operation across UK homes and businesses, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) […]