ADE

The gender discrepancy: Balancing energy's just transition

Skills

The gender discrepancy: Balancing energy's just transition

Women have disproportionately felt the impacts of the gas price crisis and must be central to decisions about future of energy, writes the ADE's Sarah Honan

clock 08 March 2024 • 3 min read
'Colder and poorer': Scrapping efficiency rules to cost renters in swing seat an extra £40m a year

Energy

'Colder and poorer': Scrapping efficiency rules to cost renters in swing seat an extra £40m a year

Almost 250,000 households in marginal seats are set to collectively pay an extra £40m in energy bills following the scrapping of energy efficiency standards, new analysis claims

clock 07 December 2023 • 6 min read
The UK needs an army of 'retrofit technicians' to reach net zero

Skills

The UK needs an army of 'retrofit technicians' to reach net zero

Ministers must urgently address a growing green skills chasm in the home retrofit sector that threatens to derail the UK’s decarbonisation agenda, argues the CSE's Ian Preston

clock 24 June 2022 • 3 min read
'No regrets fiscal stimulus': Firms intensify calls to ditch VAT on energy efficiency upgrades

Taxation

'No regrets fiscal stimulus': Firms intensify calls to ditch VAT on energy efficiency upgrades

Ahead of the Chancellor’s spring statement, trade groups and energy companies yet again urge Treasury to leverage tax system to accelerate green home retrofit market

clock 18 February 2022 • 4 min read
Fear and loathing in Glasgow

Infrastructure

Fear and loathing in Glasgow

Ian Calvert, director of the Association for Decentralised Energy, offers a 'Gonzo' take on his experience of COP26 in Glasgow - aka 'a savage journey to the heart of the Climate Dream'

clock 25 November 2021 • 5 min read

Infrastructure

The publicity campaign for green careers starts now

Lucinda Dann from the Association for Decentralised Energy argues that businesses need to showcase the benefits of green careers

clock 15 July 2021 • 3 min read

Infrastructure

Speed is not the solution to our stuttering green home retrofit roll-out

Quick, ineffective initiatives to stimulate a booming market for home retrofits risk stealing precious time and causing further delay, explains Kelly Greer of the Association for Decentralised Energy

clock 01 June 2021 • 3 min read

Efficiency

We need to move on from the theoretical electric heat pump vs hydrogen debate

With pipes connecting each building, and an individual heat pump in each property, much more than 20 per cent of homes couple be served by a heat network in the UK, writes Kensa Group's Karl Drage

clock 22 April 2021 • 4 min read

Infrastructure

Can the public sector drive business decarbonisation?

The buying power of public sector organisations can have a huge influence on the market for green products and services, writes Dr Joanne Wade from the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE)

clock 03 March 2021 • 3 min read

Infrastructure

Decentralised energy, decentralised skills, and decentralised profits

Britain has the potential to make a lot of money in efficient, decentralised energy, argues Lucy Symons-Jones of the Association for Decentralised Energy

clock 20 January 2021 • 3 min read