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Winter fuel bills lower than 2009 for British Gas customers
Customers of British Gas, the UK’s leading energy supplier, paid less for their winter fuel this year compared to the winter of 2008/9, despite this being one of the coldest winters of recent decades. Bills have been reduced as a result of customers acting on the energy efficiency tips from the supplier and through the [...]
Continue reading...UK government launches feed-in energy tariffs
4. April 2010
The UK government has launched a new scheme to help homeowners contribute to the National Grid. This is done via homeowners installing eco-freindly technology to create electricity, such as solar power or wind power. Any excess of energy that they produce but do not use will be sent to the National Grid, helping people reduce [...]
Continue reading...Efficiency team “saves” Coast Guard units throughout Hawaii
4. April 2010
In Hawaii the Coast Guard is riding on the energy effceincy bandwagon, taking active steps to reduce their energy costs and carbonm footprint. The Coast Guard believes this will mean that more money will be spent on helping the coast guard perform their duties. ” Every dollar saved from our electric bill will be one [...]
Continue reading...Carbon Trust loan scheme reaches £60m worth of loans given out to help businesses reducing their carbon footprint
2. April 2010
Carbon Trust loan scheme clears £60m mark The Carbon Trust has recently announced that their scheme of helping small and medium-sized reduced their energy output has broken the £60m mark in loans given out. 1,847 businesses have benifited so far from the loans given out. These 1,847 businesses will have benifited from financial and consultancy [...]
Continue reading...UK Government: No more boiler scrappage scheme vouchers
29. March 2010
The government has announced they will not be continuing the boiler scrappage scheme – leaving it for industry to take up the mantle.
Continue reading...npower vows to continue boiler scrappage scheme
28. March 2010
UK energy company npower has pledged to continue with its own boiler scrappage scheme once the Government based scheme ends. The Government scheme only had a total allocation of 125,000 and is now drawing to a close.
Continue reading...FoE on UK greenhouse gas emissions fall
25. March 2010
In a press released date 25th March Friends of the Earth comment on the UK Government’s provisional estimates for 2009 greenhouse gas emissions showing a substantial fall in greenhouse emissions.
Continue reading...£3bn UK coal power plant to test strength of Ed Miliband’s environmental policy
15. March 2010
The first coal power plant to submit an application since the introduction of Ed Milliband’s new environmental policy is to potentially occur this week as reported by The Guardian. UK conglomerate Peel Group intends to build a 1.6GW plant at Hunterston in Scotland. Below is an expandable map, showing the location of an nucleur plant [...]
Continue reading...48% don’t believe in global warming – USA
11. February 2010
There is a skeptical belief amongst almost half of americans that global warming is a myth. 48% think that the risk of global warming has been exagerrated. This is an inxrease of last year, when 41% of americans thought that global warming is exagerrated.
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- Lower heating bills after £3m energy saving scheme at flats - Lancashire Evening Post
28. April 2010
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