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'It will kill businesses eventually': Are administrative problems scuppering the Green Homes Grant scheme?
'It will kill businesses eventually': Are administrative problems scuppering the Green Homes Grant scheme?

Complaints from households and installers are becoming ever more vocal, and now some fear the high profile scheme could lead to the collapse of some businesses

  • Efficiency
  • 27 January 2021
HyNet: First industrial boiler fired up with hydrogen at pioneering pilot project
HyNet: First industrial boiler fired up with hydrogen at pioneering pilot project

Progressive Energy says pilot project will provide evidence base to support switch from fossil fuel to hydrogen, as industry advances plans for UK's first hydrogen fuelled town

  • Energy
  • 21 January 2021
Distilleries receive first phase of £10m green whisky fund
Distilleries receive first phase of £10m green whisky fund

The Green Distilleries competition will provide £10m of funding to 17 distilleries across England and Scotland

  • Technology
  • 08 January 2021
'We're getting there': Smart meters on track to reach half of Britain's homes and businesses in 2021
'We're getting there': Smart meters on track to reach half of Britain's homes and businesses in 2021

The smart meter rollout has faced major disruption due to Covid-19, but installations are on the up again and experts believe the technology has the potential to unlock the next wave of the net zero transition

  • Infrastructure
  • 16 December 2020
Green Homes Grant scheme: MPs urge improvements in response to major teething issues
Green Homes Grant scheme: MPs urge improvements in response to major teething issues

Survey by Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee reveals 'poor experience' among many applicants for the schemes' vouchers

  • Buildings
  • 14 December 2020
How NatWest Group is delivering on its operational climate commitments
How NatWest Group is delivering on its operational climate commitments

NatWest Group Energy Manager, Richard Eaton, offers the inside track on how the banking giant is working to deliver on its ambitious climate goals across its operations

  • Efficiency
  • 14 December 2020
A new breed of local energy service company will help businesses drive a green recovery
A new breed of local energy service company will help businesses drive a green recovery

Energy efficiency services for businesses could be at the heart of a locally-driven economic recovery - all that’s needed is a toolkit to create solutions that businesses actually want, argues EnergyPro's Alex Rathmell

  • Efficiency
  • 10 December 2020
Smart Opportunities: Latest BusinessGreen webinar to explore how smart technologies are helping firms cut emissions
Smart Opportunities: Latest BusinessGreen webinar to explore how smart technologies are helping firms cut emissions

Hosted in association with Smart Energy GB, latest webinar will provide invaluable insights into how smart meters and associated technologies are unlocking multiple benefits

  • Technology
  • 09 December 2020
Green financiers plot wave of zero carbon heating offers
Green financiers plot wave of zero carbon heating offers

New report from Green Finance Institute identifies barriers to investment in green heating systems and trails series of new demonstration projects

  • Investment
  • 09 December 2020
How a slowdown in energy efficiency progress is jeopardising global climate goals
How a slowdown in energy efficiency progress is jeopardising global climate goals

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused energy efficiency investments to tumble while increasing the energy intensity of the global economy, according to the International Energy Agency

  • Energy
  • 03 December 2020
Smart Energy GB to shift focus to behaviour change and boosting smart meter demand
Smart Energy GB to shift focus to behaviour change and boosting smart meter demand

Organisation tasked with overseeing national rollout of smart meters set to shift its focus from awareness building to driving demand for the devices and encouraging pro-environmental behaviours

  • Energy
  • 24 November 2020
Industry and campaigners welcome extension of Green Homes Grant scheme
Industry and campaigners welcome extension of Green Homes Grant scheme

PM commended for decision to push end date for national buildings retrofit programme back by a year, following high profile concerns that the industry needs to build up capacity to deliver the £3bn scheme

  • Efficiency
  • 18 November 2020
How circular cities can put people first
How circular cities can put people first

Elsa Wenzel explores how circular economy models, when executed right, can unlock a raft of co-benefits

  • Efficiency
  • 13 November 2020
EDF inks heat pump partnership as calls grow for post-boiler strategy
EDF inks heat pump partnership as calls grow for post-boiler strategy

Energy giant partners with Daikin for heat pump offer, as new report warns 'boiler backlash' could derail net zero agenda

  • Technology
  • 04 November 2020
Study: Health threat from workplace air pollution 'underplayed' in UK
Study: Health threat from workplace air pollution 'underplayed' in UK

Indoor air pollution risks exacerbating prior health issues of up to 440,000 manufacturing and logistics workers in the UK, Global Action Plan warns

  • Workplace
  • 27 October 2020
'Decentralise, digitalise, and decarbonise': Engie UK debuts low carbon housing retrofit solution
'Decentralise, digitalise, and decarbonise': Engie UK debuts low carbon housing retrofit solution

Firm says it has a "duty" to develop solutions that can reduce carbon footprint of UK's housing stock, warning that existing housing supply poses "considerable threat" to UK's net zero plans

  • Efficiency
  • 20 October 2020
'Challenging process': Calls grow for government to extend under fire Green Homes Grant scheme
'Challenging process': Calls grow for government to extend under fire Green Homes Grant scheme

MCS certification scheme says it is 'fielding calls on a daily basis from installers seeking clarity and expressing their concerns over what they feel are flaws in the scheme'

  • Efficiency
  • 15 October 2020
Government urged to extend Green Homes Grant Scheme as fears grow over shortage of installers
Government urged to extend Green Homes Grant Scheme as fears grow over shortage of installers

National Insulation Association writes to Chancellor requesting clarity over long term future of the scheme, after reports that many households cannot access grant scheme

  • Policy
  • 12 October 2020
'Unstoppable momentum': Business-backed report concludes Paris-aligned power sector can be delivered
'Unstoppable momentum': Business-backed report concludes Paris-aligned power sector can be delivered

'S curve' deployment suggest goals of Paris Agreement can be achieved, but only if policy framework 'encourages, sustains, and extends' the deployment of clean technologies, according to researchers from UCL's Institute for Sustainable Resources

  • Energy
  • 12 October 2020
'Doing the basics well': Vodafone racks up £10m energy efficiency savings in three years
'Doing the basics well': Vodafone racks up £10m energy efficiency savings in three years

The savings were achieved via a raft of efficiency improvements across 90 of the firm's buildings including offices and data centres

  • Energy
  • 08 October 2020
Green Aisles take root in Homebase stores
Green Aisles take root in Homebase stores

New dedicated spaces to showcase energy efficient and environmentally friendly products alongside expert advice on efficiency measures in the home

  • Marketing
  • 06 October 2020
Heathrow CEO: Aviation should have priority access to sustainable biofuels
Heathrow CEO: Aviation should have priority access to sustainable biofuels

Aviation sector will not be able to reach net zero if worldwide capacity of sustainable fuels is split between different transport sectors, John Holland Kaye warned at BusinessGreen’s Net Zero Festival

  • Aviation
  • 02 October 2020
Banks launch industry standards for financing green home retrofits
Banks launch industry standards for financing green home retrofits

Green Home Retrofit Finance Principles spearheaded by Green Finance Institute aim to 'strengthen integrity of retrofit finance market'

  • Buildings
  • 29 September 2020
From materials innovation to modular construction: The property sector plots its pathway to net zero
From materials innovation to modular construction: The property sector plots its pathway to net zero

The government has promised to 'build, build, build' to reboot the economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. But can this be done without stoking the climate emergency? BusinessGreen speaks to two developers to find out

  • Buildings
  • 04 September 2020
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