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Lower energy bills for 50,000 North East properties
Lower energy bills for 50,000 North East properties Posted on 26 July 2013 by Priyanka Shrestha Up to 50,000 homes and businesses in the North East are set to benefit from an energy efficiency scheme in a bid to help them cut bills and tackle fuel poverty. The £200 million ‘Warm Up North’ initiative, which […]
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Fracking protestors complain of “heavy-handed” police
Fracking protestors complain of “heavy-handed” police Posted on 26 July 2013 by Vicky Ellis Several arrests were made today after anti-shale gas protestors were forcibly moved from blocking the entrance to a drilling site in Sussex. It makes a second day of protest action from local residents and activists at the shale gas drilling firm […]
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New solar plant in Indian state of Maharashtra
New solar plant in Indian state of Maharashtra Posted on 26 July 2013 by Priyanka Shrestha The Indian state of Maharashtra will soon have a new solar plant with a total installed capacity of 28.8MW. The plant will be spread over 130 acres of land and will be developed by Tata Power’s Renewable Energy division. […]
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Smart meters won’t save cash if costs “spiral” – MPs
Smart meters won’t save cash if costs “spiral” – MPs Posted on 27 July 2013 by Vicky Ellis MPs are warning that much-touted savings brought by ‘smart’ energy meters may not materialise if the costs of putting them in all UK homes “spiral”. Around 53 million smart meters in around 28 million homes and 2 […]
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Welsh wind farm transmission link builder picked
Welsh wind farm transmission link builder picked Posted on 26 July 2013 by Vicky Ellis Energy regulator Ofgem has picked a consortium of building firm Balfour Beatty and investors Equitix as preferred bidder to build the transmission links for a new Welsh wind farm. Gwynt y Môr is being built in Liverpool Bay off the North […]
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Northamptonshire awards £53m to manage household waste
Northamptonshire awards £53m to manage household waste Posted on 26 July 2013 by Priyanka Shrestha Northamptonshire County Council has awarded a contract worth up to £53 million to manage around 79,000 tonnes of residual household waste every year. Waste will be sent to SITA UK’s landfill site in Wellingborough during the first two years of […]
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Guest Blog: Dr Andy Higgins – Are suppliers sinister… or just incompetent?
Energy procurement companies are constantly asked for a full evaluation of the market as people search for better energy prices – in today’s business environment that’s perfectly understandable. It is now quite commonplace for a single energy user to ask a number of brokers to simultaneously use their energy data to approach the same Big […]
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Freight firms fear “burdensome” cost of energy audits
Freight firms fear “burdensome” cost of energy audits Posted on 25 July 2013 by Vicky Ellis Freight firms are concerned about the “time-consuming and burdensome” cost of plans for all businesses to carry out an energy audit. The Government wants to bring in a mandatory energy audit called the Energy Opportunities Saving Scheme (ESOS) and is […]
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Tata Power launches carbon neutral ‘Eco-Hut’ in India
Tata Power launches carbon neutral ‘Eco-Hut’ in India Posted on 24 July 2013 by Priyanka Shrestha Indian energy giant Tata Power has launched its first pilot model of carbon neutral self-powered eco house in the country. The power company invested a total of Rs 10 lakhs (£11,015) in the Eco-Hut (pictured) at Walwhan Garden, Lonavala […]
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Rig evacuated after Gulf of Mexico fire
Rig evacuated after Gulf of Mexico fire Posted on 24 July 2013 by Vicky Ellis A fire broke out at an offshore oil and gas rig in the Gulf of Mexico late yesterday hours after 44 workers were safely evacuated. Yesterday a well blowout at the Hercules 265 rig (pictured) saw gas freely flowing from […]
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