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  • Renewable heating could save Scots ‘£151m a year’

    Renewable heating could save Scots ‘£151m a year’ Oct 01, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure Generation, Sustainability Environment 0 Ground-source heat pump diagram. Image: Thinkstock Householders in Scotland could save or £151 million every year by installing renewable heating technologies, new research claims. A YouGov poll by the Energy Saving Trust (EST) found although people know […]

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  • National Trust and Panasonic join forces for green push

    National Trust and Panasonic join forces for green push Oct 01, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Energy Efficiency, Sustainability Environment 0 Tyntesfield in North Somerset. Image: JeremyTaylor/Thinkstock Technology giant Panasonic and National Trust have joined forces in a bid to help the conservation charity move towards a “greener, more sustainable mode of operation”. They have inked a […]

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  • Sellafield awards £336m nuclear waste contract

    Sellafield awards £336m nuclear waste contract Sep 30, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Low Carbon, Markets Finance 0 Copyright: Sellafield Ltd Sellafield Ltd has awarded a multi-million pound contract to build a nuclear waste processing facility at its site in Cumbria. A joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Amec and Jacobs will be responsible for the design, engineering […]

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  • Blog: True Blue tick-boxing from Tory Energy Minister

    Blog: True Blue tick-boxing from Tory Energy Minister Sep 30, 2014 Vicky Ellis Latest Blogs, Sustainability Environment 0 For a man who boasted about ditching tick-box regulation for business, Matthew Hancock’s Tory conference speech was very much a tick-box exercise when it came to energy. The Business and Energy Minister proudly promoted the 3,000 regulations […]

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  • Scotland unhappy with “gung-ho” fracking

    Scotland unhappy with “gung-ho” fracking Sep 26, 2014 Vicky Ellis Coal, Gas Oil, Policy Legislation 0 Image: Thinkstock / ELN The Scottish Government is angry it will be overruled about fracking underneath homes in Scotland. Yesterday Business and Energy Minister Matt Hancock confirmed hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas will take place underneath homes without developers […]

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  • Confidence Code ‘stamp’ for energy comparison sites

    Confidence Code ‘stamp’ for energy comparison sites Sep 29, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Markets Finance 0 Energy comparison websites that “make the grade” can now display a Confidence Code ‘badge’ which tells consumers they can trust the sites’ advice. Ofgem proposed making the changes to the voluntary code of practice after its research found more consumers […]

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  • Economy Energy under investigation

    Economy Energy under investigation Sep 28, 2014 Vicky Ellis Infrastructure Generation, Policy Legislation 0 Image: Thinkstock Small supplier Economy Energy is under investigation for the way telesales staff arranged contracts and to check whether if customers were misled. Energy watchdog Ofgem will look at whether Economy Energy complied with its licence conditions when marketing gas and electricity […]

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  • UK okays Burbo Bank wind farm extension

    UK okays Burbo Bank wind farm extension Sep 26, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure Generation, Sustainability Environment 0 Plans to extend the Burbo Bank offshore wind farm in the Liverpool Bay of northwest England has been granted development consent. DONG Energy’s extension project will include up to 69 turbines and have an estimated generating capacity of […]

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  • Cool solar savings for Nottingham ice rink

    Cool solar savings for Nottingham ice rink Sep 26, 2014 Vicky Ellis Low Carbon 0 Image: Tracey Whitefoot The National Ice Centre and Capital FM Arena in Nottingham cut their carbon footprint by more than 118 tonnes in the last year with a set of solar panels. With 1,000 panels, the solar system has now been […]

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  • Cupid strikes! Fall in love with this heart-shaped solar farm

    Cupid strikes! Fall in love with this heart-shaped solar farm Sep 27, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure Generation, Sustainability Environment 0 Copyright: Conergy A beautiful and eye-catching heart-shaped solar farm is to be built on the Pacific island of New Caledonia. The 2MW “Heart of New Caledonia”, which will be constructed by Conergy, is expected to […]

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