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Small and medium enterprises across England, Scotland and Wales will be able to take active steps towards reducing their energy use by accessing funds available through the £7 million ‘Green Business Fund’. The Carbon Trust will offer energy-saving training, cost-saving assessments, implementation advice and capital for the installation of energy efficient technologies. Eligible companies can […]

Residents in St Just and Redruth are now able to enjoy warmer and nicer homes after using £2.3 million of funding from the Central Heating Fund to install new central heating systems across their homes, a recent news report has been able to find. Residents in the West Cornwall towns used to rely on expensive […]

British homeowners are still paying excessively high energy bills despite a significant drop in wholesale energy prices over the past few months, a news report can reveal. The report suggests that, despite wholesale energy costs having dropped to 2005 lows, the cost of the average bill has remained unchanged for more than two years. In […]

Implementing building energy management systems and other sustainable technologies could help US businesses reduce their buildings’ annual expenses by 3% to 30%, depending on the city, a new research report has been able to suggest. The report by the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing points out that savings could potentially add between $3.5 billion […]

There are around 1.5 million “unhealthily cold” homes across Scotland, figures released by the Existing Homes Alliance Scotland, whose members include WWF Scotland, Changeworks and the National Insulation Association, have been able to suggest. Glasgow is the region where most of the homes are located, with around 165,000. There are almost 150,000 cold homes in […]

Identifying people in danger of falling into fuel poverty and helping them mitigate their heating and electricity woes could potentially help the NHS reduce its costs by preventing the potentially life-threatening conditions induced by the lack of adequate heating. This is what charity Shelter Scotland claims as it has recently launched the national Healthy Homes […]

The number of homes and businesses in Ireland being upgraded to improve energy efficiency needs to go up three times, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has recommended. In order for the country to reach its 20% energy efficiency target by 2020, it needs to achieve savings equating to 31,925GWh of power, the organization […]

Close to 6 in 10 UK consumers have problems fully understanding all the data provided in their respective energy bills, a recent news report has been able to suggest. Around 48% of those surveyed said they have seen no difference to energy bills and more than half are unable to recall information about cheaper deals. […]

Behavioural change can help businesses slash their energy costs, one of the Big Six energy suppliers has recently argued. npower Business Solutions believes that the key to tangible energy savings is designing programmes to change behaviour, improve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption. This can be achieved by working with employees to alter their energy […]

The Energy Saving Trust’s data matching service for the Affordable Warmth arm of the ECO scheme has just processed its 100,000th record since launching in June last year and helped a very large number of people in need reduce their energy consumption and bills. It’s a service tailored to simply check people’s eligibility for the […]

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 […]

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 […]