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The government is set to introduce changes to the feed-in tariff (FIT) rate at the start of next month, but confusion still abounds among consumers as to whether implementing solar power in their home makes for a good deal or not. That's according to a new survey by, aptly, Confused.com, which found that almost a third (28 per cent) of Read more...

Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK - or SMEs, as they are known to their mums - are set to receive a boost this month, after a scheme was announced to help such firms tackle rising fuel bills. Ardenham Energy has announced plans to provide small businesses with funding and installation of green ground source heat pumps (GSHP), creating Read more...

Manchester United won the treble this year. This happened. You might not have noticed it on the pitch, where the grand trophy total was zero, but they did. And it's the kind of performance that would have David May pumping his hands in glee: in the run up to hosting some of the Olympic football games, the club has been awarded with its Read more...

It costs a lot to fly a load of Lycra-clad athletes over to the UK, dump them in a flash new stadium and carry a gold-plated torch around them - about £11 billion, according to reports. But despite the massive public spend that's gone on hosting the London 2012 Olympics, there is at least one arena in which the planning committees are Read more...

The UK is like a chubby child with a feverish appetite for chocolate biscuits, only to feed this particular country-shaped beast, you need a steady supply of electricity and gas. However, one government-sponsored thinktank has announced that the UK could cut its electricity demand by as much as 40 per cent by the year 2030 - but it's not a Read more...

The UK ranks first among the world's 12 largest economies for reducing pollution and emissions through industry, transport and buildings, according to a report issued this month by the Washington-based American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). According to the report, the UK beat out America (ranked 9th in the research, thanks Read more...

We've all thought it: "I've installed LED lighting in my home, but what are they doing in Runcorn?" Well, worry no more. Investment has been secured to retrofit energy-saving lighting to more than 80 homes on a Runcorn housing estate, so the Runcorn and Widnes area can stop letting the side down. According to reports, the housing Read more...

Homeowners are still pretty useless when it comes to energy efficiency, according to Age UK. They've had enough, the charity. They've had enough of heat leaking out of single-glazed windows, of lights being left on in vacant rooms, of phone chargers being left in the plug despite the battery being full. They have just had it with us, all of Read more...

Cambridge County Council is the latest organisation to join the ranks of green local assemblies, with the news that a thriving car park in the city centre has been converted to LED lighting. As part of its long-term commitment to making Cambridge a more sustainable city, the council recruited Manchester-based MHA lighting to replace the 220 Read more...

The next year should see electrical contractors benefit from a growing number of new opportunities, the Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) has predicted. Publishing its latest Quarterly Business Trends Survey, the professional body has revealed that more than one in four of its members saw an increase in turnover during the first three Read more...