Energy Efficiency

Andrew Warren warns the already considerable challenge of reducing the cost of heat pumps is being complicated by the inability of Energy Performance Certificate surveyors to recommend a switch to greener heating systems

New research reveals soaring energy bills are set to be felt acutely in places where Conservatives secured slender majorities in 2019, due to the concentration of inefficient housing stock in those areas

The political debate over how to tackle the gas price crisis is continuing to ignore the crucial role energy efficiency upgrades could play

Windfall taxes and green levy reforms appear increasingly unlikely, as Treasury prepares package of loans for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households

Energy saving stamp duty incentive could be 'transformational' for reducing household emissions and energy bills, Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group argues

The Treasury is reportedly reviewing the Energy Company Obligation as it looks to ease rising energy bills, despite warnings from BEIS that cutting levy would be 'short termist'

Conservative Environment Network calls for HMT to fund environmental and social levies on energy bills to help ease burden of soaring costs for home and businesses

Government has so far only come forward with a fraction of £9.2bn energy efficiency funding it promised during current parliament, coalition points out

Both Westminster and Brussels have announced new regulations and standards designed to slash emissions from buildings, but concerns remain that reforms are not ambitious enough

Low-income homeowners and Londoners who rent privately will be eligible to claim grants of up to £20,000 from March 2022