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Low-cost building management systems (BMS) will certainly drive down energy bills in most homes and make them more energy efficient, which could potentially make them eligible for the newly-announced green mortgages – major new pilot scheme is set to roll out across Europe. Some 37 of Europe’s leading banks, including BNP Paribas, ING Bank, and […]

Smaller energy suppliers will soon be required to give vulnerable customers, including pensioners, £140 off their energy bills, as part of the Warm Home Discount scheme, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The government said energy firms with more than 150,000 customer accounts – currently 250,000 – will be obliged to offer […]

Despite announcing a 2.7% increase in electricity prices back in april, which left dual fuel customers paying 1.4% more, French-owned energy supplier EDF has announced a further price hike of 6%. The “big six” energy supplier blamed a rise of 13% in wholesale energy costs for the price hike, adding that one of the reasons […]

Energy firms could cut off a customer’s power supply remotely should they fail to pay the bills or even force them to pay upfront, recent research has warned. According to a media investigation, if homes are equipped with the new digital smart meters installed as part of the national upgrade scheme ordered by the Government, […]

Improving the energy efficiency within one’s home can result in benefits for human health and well-being, economic productivity, environmental quality and urban development, the results of several new research projects at The University of Manchester’s Urban Institute have shown. The COMBI project (‘Calculating and Operationalising the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Europe’, funded by […]

The total number of households switching energy suppliers in 2018 has already reached 3.2 million, and it’s likely to rise even further as home owners face new increases from the Big Six energy suppliers. Just under half a million (477,106) customers switched supplier in July, a report from Energy UK suggests. Small and mid-tier suppliers […]

Installing a low-cost building management system (BMS) can help you reduce energy usage and therefore somewhat dampen the negative effect of the latest round of energy tariffs rises announced by the UK’s largest suppliers. The first Bix Six supplier to announce a price rise was British Gas, who is adding £44 to the typical fuel […]

Following in the footsteps of the other Big Six energy suppliers, ScottishPower has also announced a second price rise for its customers this year, a news report has been able to suggest. Hence, ScottishPower’s standard variable dual fuel tariff will increase by 3.7% from 8th October 2018 – adding £46 to customers’ energy bill and […]

Automatic occupancy detection can help solve a problem that’s costing homes and business around the UK up to £800 on energy bills: leaving the lights on when a particular area or room are not in use. According to a recent news report on this issue, 10 per cent (around seven million) Britons regularly left all […]

UK households could save up to £75 on their energy bills under a new energy price cap announced by OFGEM, a recent news report has been able to suggest. From the end of this year the upper limit for default tariffs, known as standard variable tariffs (SVT), will be set at £1,136, based on typical […]

Centrica has just announced today an increase in the price of electricity on the British Gas standard tariff that takes effect on 15th September and will affect 3.1m of our customers. The energy supplier claims that the 12.5% electricity price rise this September reflects the increasing costs of energy policy, and delivery to customers’ homes […]

Despite offering home owners the possibility of drastically cutting their energy bills, domestic energy efficiency systems are still considered way too costly by a significant percentage of the UK population, recent research has suggested. A new survey of 1,539 consumers by Electricity North West (ENW) points out that 56% of consumers that said they were […]