Energy Efficiency

From onshore renewables to energy efficiency campaigns, the government is finally edging towards the position businesses have been lobbying for - but does the new plan go far enough?

New funding to help schools and colleges install measures such as heating controls, pipe insulation, and LED lighting that can curb energy use this winter

Home Decarbonisation Skills Training to deliver thousands of trained heat pump and energy efficiency engineers

Extension of ECO scheme to see grants offered to wider range of households, as plans confirmed for £18m energy-saving public information campaign

Preliminary results of hour-long trial earlier this month saw 200,000 households receive payments to avoid using power at peak times

Jeremy Hunt underscores government’s commitment to tackling 'existential' climate threat with new nuclear projects and energy efficiency funding, but green groups slam Autumn Statement that 'falls woefully short'

Chancellor poised to announce new multi-billion pound investment programme in bid to cut UK energy demand by at least 13 per cent this decade

Barclays launches new pilot project to help mortgage customers fund energy efficiency-related home improvements

Climate Change Committee writes to the Treasury to explain how 'many small changes can make a meaningful contribution to reducing energy demand'

But Public First survey shows widespread public support for net zero transition, with climate change ranked a more pressing issue than Brexit and immigration