ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICIES: GETTING THE BEST FROM BREXIT
ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY POST-BREXIT UNDER SPOTLIGHT
• MPS HEAR FROM ENERGY SAVING TRUST CEO
• FUNDING AND AMBITION KEY OUTSIDE EU Last week, a range of experts gave their views on what should be the energy and climate priorities in forthcoming Brexit negotiations. Among those presenting to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) select committee was Energy Saving Trust chief executive, Philip Sellwood (pictured), who laid out the risks and opportunities arou
A TALE OF TWO HOMES: HOW WARM HOUSES CHANGE LIVES
John Flynn from Hartlepool is 72. He’s paying £180 a month to keep warm this winter in his north-facing end-terraced house. Les Fawcett from nearby Middlesbrough is 76. He’s paying just £45 a month to keep his home cosy. What separates the two is not a greedy energy supplier – it’s four inches of wall insulation. Both men are owner-occupiers living on pensions. Les had his solid walls clad with the help of a subsidy from the Government, but the public money ran out before Joh
THE ‘GREEN’ MORTGAGE MESSAGE IS SPREADING
GOOD IDEAS TEND TO SPREAD FAST – AND THIS SEEMS TO BE THE CASE WITH THE CONCEPT OF BRINGING ENERGY EFFICIENCY TO THE HEART OF MORTGAGES. Earlier this year we looked at how LENDERS, a project involving Energy Saving Trust, BRE, Nationwide and others, is looking to find ways to bring accurate projections on energy bill costs into mortgage calculations. Now, a continent-wide initiative, The European Energy Efficiency Mortgage, has launched, aligning some big players in lending,
UK SETS NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY RECORD AS WIND AND SOLAR SURGE
A blustery start to summer has helped the renewable energy industry to its highest ever output as wind turbines and solar panels help to meet more than half of the UK’s electricity demand. National Grid’s data at lunchtime on Wednesday showed that solar panels produced around 7.6GW of electricity while wind farms generated 9.5GW of power. In addition, the UK burnt 2GW of renewable biomass, made from waste wood, and produced a modest amount of hydro electricity to help squeeze
FIVE REASONS WHY ENERGY BILLS ARE SO HIGH – AND STILL RISING
We’re spending more and more on energy with no end in sight, regardless of what shade of green we plan for our future. Can we do anything about it? Gas prices are not easy to control, but politicians do set energy taxes and levies, and decide on how investment in low-carbon power generation, the power grid and energy efficiency is spent. Understanding what makes up our energy bills is key to holding politicians and energy providers to account. Here are the five reasons your g
