New suppliers join Warm Home Discount scheme for 2016-17
Following the introduction of the Warm Home Discount a new supplier, Extra Energy, has joined the scheme for the first time after it exceeded the customer number threshold at which participation becomes mandatory.
Also for the first time since the… Continue reading
Stalled solar scheme gets the green light
Harborough Energy is delighted to announce its latest solar PV project. Harborough Energy, a co-operative set up to provide affordable, renewable energy projects in and around Market Harborough is delighted to have secured agreement with Woodnewton Academy to install… Continue reading
The Efficiency Network – Market Harborough
Looking for ideas on how to save time or resources in the workplace and improve your bottom line? This new initiative is here to help with new ideas, expert speakers and peer- to-peer learning.
Join us for this free quarterly… Continue reading
Energy firms told to refund customers after gas meters mistake
Some householders have been paying nearly three times too much for their gas, after at least one energy supplier got its maths wrong.
The error – caused by mixing up measurements from older imperial meters with modern metric ones –… Continue reading
Ofgem to introduce price cap for pre-pay energy meters
Ofgem has said four million pre-pay energy customers will be protected by an interim price cap from next April.
The cap will save “vulnerable” households using pre-pay energy meters about £75 a year, the regulator said.
Ofgem said it would… Continue reading
Hottest June ever recorded worldwide – NOAA
Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide, and the 14th straight month that global heat records were broken, scientists say.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says global sea temperatures were fractionally higher than for June… Continue reading
Electric car sales could overtake fossil fuels by 2027
Electric power could be the dominant form of propulsion for all new cars sold in the UK as early as 2027, with more than 1.3 million electric cars registered each year, according to forecast analysis by Go Ultra Low… Continue reading
Hillary Clinton could run on strongest climate change platform ever
The leaders committed the presumptive Democratic nominee to a carbon tax, a climate test… Continue reading
Business and sustainability leaders welcome fifth carbon budget
Business leaders and sustainability professionals have unanimously welcomed this morning’s confirmation that the government has set the fifth carbon budget at the recommended level.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd laid a draft order before parliament setting the carbon budget for the… Continue reading
Warming unlikely to limit chances of UK soggy summers
The UK is likely to continue to have soggy summers regardless of global warming according to a new study.
Scientists say that greenhouse gases will cause a general rise in summer temperatures, over the course of this century.
But they… Continue reading