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Friday 18th May 2012
Today the Committee on Climate Change
has called for local
authorities to be obliged to institute plans to reduce carbon emissions
backed by national funding. The committee argues that environmental plans were
among the first cuts to be made by local authorities...
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Tuesday 15th May 2012
High profile firms and industry groups
have called on the Government this week to put more resources into publicising
the green initiatives it is spearheading. It’s suggested they should put in
place the same sort of high profile campaign as the digital...
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Monday 14th May 2012
The European Smart Metering Industry
Group (Esmig) has called for the planned EU energy efficiency directive (EED)
to “set
mandatory requirements for smart meters to provide minimum functionalities and
energy consumption and cost information.” Esmig claims...
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Wednesday 9th May 2012
The Sustainable Energy Authority of
Ireland (SEAI) released
figures at the end of last week demonstrating that a drive to improve
energy management by businesses in Ireland has seen them save €150 million in
energy costs.
These savings have been driven...
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Thursday 3rd May 2012
A new
national body was announced this week to help industry make the most of the
Government’s Green Deal. The new Energy Efficiency Partnership for Buildings
(EEPB) has been created to “act as a forum to represent industry's views on the
Green Deal, ECO...
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Thursday 26th April 2012
There has been much coverage in the
news this week around the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)
taking place in London this week. A lot of this coverage has focused on the
fact that David Cameron did not give a keynote
speech as expected and instead gave
a...
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Tuesday 24th April 2012
A report
announced today by Ernst & Young suggests that a UK smart grid could
pump £13 billion into the UK economy and create 10,000 new jobs. Moreover, Bill Easton, utilities director at Ernst &
Young, commented that: "In addition to the direct
economic...
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Friday 20th April 2012
Over Easter the Deputy Prime Minister,
Nick Clegg, announced
that the Government has reached an agreement with the ‘Big Six’
that will see the energy suppliers write to customers every year from this
autumn to inform them of the best value tariff and how...
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