7th May 2021 | Commercial Energy
The UK Government has announced it is to set in law the ‘world’s most ambitious climate change target’. By 2035, it aims to cut the nation’s emissions by 78% compared to 1990 levels. For the first time, the latest Carbon Budget will also incorporate the UK’s share of international aviation and shopping emissions and ultimately…Read more
4th May 2021 | Commercial Energy
Hartlepool, long a centre of shipbuilding and steelmaking, may not seem like the first stop on the road to net zero. Ask many people, and COP26 in Glasgow springs to mind first. Yet the North East town has helped give its region the cleanest electricity in England. COP26 is where the talking will take place,…Read more
1st May 2021 | Recycling
Popular branded products come in packaging that is less easily recycled in practice in the UK than in other countries, the consumer group Which? has revealed. The watchdog joined eight international consumer groups, together representing 1.8 billion people, to look at the recyclability of 11 common products in different nations. Of the nine countries examined…Read more
29th April 2021 | Residential Energy
Nine in 10 (93%) rural off-grid households would not be able to afford the estimated average cost of a heat pump system, according to a new poll. The survey by Liquid Gas UK (LGUK), the trade association for the LPG and bioLPG industry in the UK, found that over a quarter (28%) of rural households…Read more
29th April 2021 | Commercial Energy
Over the past year fundamentals effecting the wholesale energy market have changed drastically with weather, LNG supply, Brexit and COVID-19 at the forefront. Back in March 2020 the winter 2021 power price reached down to £42/MWh but recently broke a new high of over £70/MWh. In January we saw a competitive LNG supply market and…Read more