It is one year since the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Regulations came into force. The Regulations were to ensure that home buyers and prospective tenants had energy performance information of homes available to them at the point of advertising. To mark the anniversary, we at Future Climate took a […]
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IPPR have just published one of Future Climate’s first pieces of work (undertaken last summer): a review of ten sustainable consumption initiatives in the UK, designed for an international audience. The mandate was simple: analyse ten high profile projects to change consumer behaviour and see how well they’d done, the […]
Britain has led the way on energy supplier energy efficiency obligations. Billions of pounds have gone from the big 6 energy suppliers to pay for insulation measures that have made over 5 million homes warmer and cheaper to heat. But there’s been spectacular problems too – for example the 315 […]
DECC’s local authority competition gives an extra £25m of capital funding for fuel poverty in England – but it all has to be spent by the end of March. Making the cliff higher before we all jump off it (with lots of funding now, but no government money for fuel […]
My attempt to be an early adopter of the Green Deal is on hold for now, because part of the government’s standard assessment software hasn’t yet been finalised. Green Deal assessments were due to be happening from November, but apparently there’s been further delay this week. Most companies are not […]
