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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. […]

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 […]

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 Scottish government has allocated £5m to a scheme that would enable it to take a positive step towards ending fuel poverty, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find. The funding will be used as part of a cashback scheme that will be made available to housing associations, who […]

The Church of Ireland has decided to provide €8.5 million (£6.12m) worth of funding for energy efficiency projects, a recent news report has been able to reveal. The cash will be used by the Ireland Energy Efficiency Fund (IEEF), which is aiming for investment totalling €70 million (£50.4m) by 2016. It was previously granted €35 […]

Low-income Scottish homes are set to participate in a major energy-efficiency scheme that aims to help them fight back fuel poverty, a recent media news report has been able to find. The ‘Help for Homes’ initiative is a three-year scheme that will target low income homes, carrying out essential repairs and energy saving upgrades. Scottish […]

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 […]

Around 37 blocks of flats in the Borough of Barking & Dagenham are set to become more energy efficient courtesy of EDF Energy, who is investing more than £500,000 as part of the Government’s Energy Company Obligation (ECO). The energy supplier is partnering with contractor Avalon and the the project is expected to cut around […]

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, […]

While smart meters can certainly help home owners keep close tabs on their energy spending, switching suppliers after having one of them installed might become a really troublesome process, a recent news report has been able to reveal. Under existing regulations, suppliers are obliged to install the meters in all their customers’ homes but they […]

The NHS is currently wasting money on energy and could attain major savings of “several hundred million pounds” by comparing energy costs, a recent report into the NHS has been able to find. The latest NHS interim evaluation: ‘Review of Operational Productivity in NHS providers’ found that NHS trusts do not compare energy costs in […]

Despite recent cuts to tariffs and the roll out of multiple schemes and programmes designed to help people save on their energy bills, the number of households in debt to their energy company is estimated to have grown by 260,000 since last year, with close to four million UK householders collectively owing suppliers £507 million […]