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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has pledged extensive support for business energy efficiency within its new plan from 2015 to 2020. Within their 5-year plan, the DECC argues that, although the energy intensity of the UK economy has fallen by 24% since 2004, there remains significant untapped potential for energy saving in […]

The number of households that have decided to switch their energy supplier in order to save energy and money has risen by 15% throughout 2015, a recent report by Ofgem has been able to find. The energy market regulator said that 6.1m gas and electricity accounts had been transferred during the year – about 800,000 […]

Energy efficiency technology and building energy management systems are becoming an integral part of our lives and will be used to help home owners and tenants save on heating and energy bills, a recent survey has been able to reveal. The poll carried out by housebuilder Barratt Homes found that 50 per cent of people […]

Every local Health and Wellbeing Board in England is spending, on average, over £27,000 each day, or £10million per year on treating patients with health conditions caused or worsened by living in cold, damp housing, a new release by fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) has been able to reveal. Cold homes cost health […]

The energy management systems (EMS) market is set to reach an impressive $58.59 billion by 2022, recent research published by Grand View Research has been able to reveal. Building energy management systems for the industrial sector have emerged as the leading product segment and were responsible for half the total revenue in 2014. Power and […]

Scotland has just announced the launch of a highly ambitious energy efficiency scheme that aims to retrofit the country’s public sector buildings in order to attain higher levels of energy efficiency. As part of this scheme, public sector organisations and registered social landlords can choose to have a combination of energy efficiency measures installed across […]

Up to 2 million domestic customers were hit with unexpectedly high energy bills last year, a recent report from Citizens Advice has been able to suggest. An investigation by the aforementioned organization found the average back-bill was for £206, with 15% of those who had been back-billed saying they were charged more than £250. Back-billing […]

Stamp duty for energy efficient homes should be up to £2,500 lower than for those that aren’t, a think tank has recently suggested. Policy Exchange believes the change to stamp duty could lead to 270,000 households a year improving their energy efficiency. It proposes linking the stamp duty system to the energy performance of a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The UK government has allocated £1.5 million to boost low carbon heating in homes and businesses, a recent news report has been able to suggest. An estimated 24 local authorities across England and Wales have received a share of the funding to develop 27 heating projects, with heating networks having the potential to supply between 14% […]