Report lays out vision for ‘ambitious’ UK energy efficiency plan | Carbon Brief
An ambitious new infrastructure programme is needed to help to decarbonise the UK’s buildings – and a sweeping new plan shows what it could look like. The proposals, developed by Frontier Economics for a group of 28 NGOs, thinktanks, businesses and trade bodies, would also boost the economy and help to meet legally-binding carbon and fuel poverty targets, its backers say. In a new report, they present a range of policies which could be taken up or trialled by the government i
GREEN DEAL LOANS TO REOPEN FOLLOWING COMPLETED PRIVATISATION DEAL
Green Deal finance loans are to reopen by the end of March after the company set up by the government to manage its former flagship energy efficiency scheme was bought by City investors over the weekend. Greenstone Finance and Aurium Capital Markets have snapped by the Green Deal Finance Company (GDFC) for more than £40 million after the scheme was scrapped by former energy secretary Amber Rudd 18 months ago. The new owners will take over the Green Deal’s existing loan book,
