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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is urging households and home owners to act now in order to make their homes more energy efficient and get instant money back for the improvements via the Government’s Green Deal Home Improvement Fund.

Energy market regulator Ofgem has managed to secure a £1 million compensation package from British Gas for mis-selling to customers in Sainsbury’s stores and Westfield shopping centre

A campaign group comprising 20 organizations has asked the government to turn home energy efficiency a national infrastructure priority, while also urging all parties to commit to retrofit 1m homes a year by 2020.

A collective bargaining campaign involving 10,000 members of the public has led to the development of the cheapest two year energy deal on the market, namely just £1,055 per year, compared to Ofgem’s estimate of the average annual energy bill of £1,346 per year.

The UK’s Big Six energy suppliers received a combined total of 1.7 million complaints over the first quarter of 2014, up 15% on the same time last year, a recent report by consumer group Which? could reveal.

Households were issued more than £2.6 million during the first week of the new Green Deal Home Improvement Fund scheme, the DECC (Department of Energy & Climate Change) has revealed in a recent statement.

A new energy efficiency improvement scheme launched by the local authority in Peterborough will enable ten homes to benefit from up to £15,000 of energy efficiency measures each.

Home owners looking to switch their energy supplier will be able to do so within just three days as part of a new set of rules and regulations laid out by energy market regulator Ofgem.

A Dorset school has decided to implement a number of energy efficiency measures designed to help it cut its energy bills and and carbon footprint, a recent news report could reveal.

Energy market regulator Ofgem has asked the Big Six energy firms to go public and explain to their customers the reasons behind their decision to keep tariffs at existing levels, despite the recent drop in wholesale gas and electricity prices.

One of the UK’s largest real-estate companies has managed to cut its commercial tenants’ energy costs by £6.9 million over the last five years by implementing a variety of smart energy monitoring and efficiency measures.   British Land manages in excess of 25 million

The Warm Home Discount (WHD) scheme provides an extensive range of benefits for vulnerable consumers, apart from rebates to eligible customers, recent research from Ofgem was able to reveal.