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A local council in Scotland has recently launched a large scale housing improvement programme that will see multiple local properties undergoing extensive energy saving improvements, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. Working with the Energy Agency, East Ayrshire Council secured funding from the Scottish Government which allowed the […]

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out a comprehensive and wide-ranging package of remedies to address the problems hindering competition, reform the energy market, open up competition and help customers get a better deal. Although competition has benefited those customers who have switched to competitively priced fixed-term deals, around 70% of the domestic […]

Research firm Gartner predicts that commercial buildings will have more than 500 million “connected things” during 2016, with the biggest driver for this trend being to improve energy efficiency – currently commercial buildings account for 40% of the world’s electricity consumption. By embedding hundreds of sensors in walls, ceilings or even lights, the systems that […]

The lack of a long-term plan from successive UK governments is having a profoundly negative effect on the overall energy efficiency of UK buildings, according to the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). The comments follow the publication of the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee report Home Efficiency And Demand Reduction. […]

An estimate 1.79 million energy efficiency measures were installed until the end of January across the UK, a recent news report has been able to reveal. All of the aforementioned measures were deployed via a number of government’s schemes such as the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and the Green Deal (GD). The lifetime carbon savings […]

A new £14 million energy efficiency fund set up by the Scottish government to help householders keep their homes warmer is now also open to housing associations, a news report has been able to suggest. The interest-free scheme is part of the government’s Home Energy Efficiency Programme Scotland (HEEPS) and it is expected to help […]

Fuel poverty and cold homes have caused 9,000 deaths in England and Wales last winter alone, a study from the University College London (UCL) has been able to reveal. The charity Age UK estimates that fuel poverty, where people cannot afford to heat their home, costs the NHS around £1.3bn every year. Each year, the […]

A housing association from Runcorn is taking part in a study to measure the efficiency of the latest heating insulation systems in a bid to combat UK fuel poverty, a news report has been able to find. The housing association, Riverside, has been awarded £227,500 from National Energy Action’s (NEA) technical innovation fund to compare […]

Despite taking their time to cut energy prices in line with the drop in wholesale energy price reductions and only doing so following significant public pressure, British Gas has just recorded a profit spike of 31%, its owners, Centrica, have recently reported. Overall, the British Gas owner reported an £857m loss across the group after […]

British retailers are set to meet their 2020 environmental targets, a report by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has suggested. The BRC has set environmental targets such as reducing absolute carbon emissions by 25% and halving energy-related emissions from buildings by 2020. Waitrose and M&S are among the retailers which signed up to the green […]

A leisure centre has deployed multiple latest-generation energy efficiency measures as part of the upgrade to their building energy management system, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find. The Dawlish Leisure Centre in Dawlish, Teignbridge has had a renewable energy system installed as part of Teignbridge Council’s plans to […]

A couple of Shropshire firms have managed to achieve significant energy savings and have demonstrated their commitment to reduce their carbon footprint by achieving the ISO 50001 international standard for energy management, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find. Morris Leisure owns six caravan parks in Shropshire and North […]