Energy Efficiency

Housing firms urge government to 'get serious' about energy efficiency and home retrofits in order to address cost of living crisis and drive net zero transition

Minimum energy consumption standards for products and rented homes have galvanised improvements in energy efficiency in recent years, argues Andrew Warren

Recent botched attempts to upgrade the UK’s notoriously leaky housing stock offer a number of lessons to policymakers, argues Public First’s Nick Park

Building Research Establishment and BEIS announce plans to develop a new methodology to better measure energy performance of UK homes

Leisure centre boasts range of energy efficiency technologies which have helped it become first in UK to achieve Passivhaus standard

Opposition ramps up local election campaign with pledge to insulate two million homes within a year of being elected

Britain’s biggest business group reiterates call for major investment in home and building energy saving measures as UK inflation hits 30-year high

For every £1m invested, renewables creates three times more jobs than fossil fuels, and energy efficiency delivers five times more jobs, UKERC research finds

Letter to HMT from more than 30 organisations warns millions more homes risk falling into fuel poverty this year without further support for insulation and other measures

Rasmus Valanko from the We Mean Business Coalition sets out what companies can do to reduce their energy use in order to drive down costs and emissions