Home Energy Monitoring Systems Can Help You Save Energy and Money
Home Energy Monitoring Systems can help you gain a better understanding on how and where you’re are using (and potentially wasting) gas and electricity throughout your home, while in the same time providing extremely important information on air quality and other factors that could potentially impact your well-being. A home energy monitoring system connects to […]
Millennials ‘don’t trust utilities with their data’, new research reveals
Almost half of millennials are not comfortable about sharing their data with energy suppliers, a recent survey suggests. SAS polled 2,000 people across the UK aged between 16 and 34 and revealed around 35% of them believe utilities use their personal data for their own benefit and just 18% trust their energy provider to find […]
Improved energy efficiency in homes set to bolster the economy
A higher level of government investment into home energy efficiency programmes could help tackle climate change and create up to 9,000 jobs, economists have recently argued, according to a recent news report. Economists at the University of Strathclyde and London School of Economics were backing calls from the Existing Homes Alliance to “transform” Scotland’s existing […]
Scotland launches ambitious pilot energy efficiency scheme
A new energy efficiency scheme in Glasgow, Argyll and Bute and Perthshire will provide loans of up to £40,000 to homeowners on low incomes to help them make essential energy efficiency improvements to their homes, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The £10 million pilot scheme provides the funding that can be […]
US to lead the zero energy homes market until 2025, report suggests
North America is likely to be the market leader in the Zero Net Energy Homes (ZNEH) segment until 2025, a recent research report from Navigant Research has been able to suggest. California is leading the drive toward ZNEHs worldwide with its goal of 100% of newly constructed residential homes to be zero carbon by the […]
British sports fans to pay more for electricity
The large number of sporting events that schedules for this summer is likely to cause an overall hike in energy bills for those keen to watch them all, a recent news report has been able to suggest. The fresh research from uSwitch.com reveals the average Brit will spend the equivalent of a working week watching […]
Up to 4 million British families could benefit from energy price cap
Up to 4 million families on pre-paid meters are set to benefit from an energy price cap which will save them £300million a year, a recent news report has been able to find. The Competition and Markets Authority ruling follows a warning that 70% of customers in the UK are on expensive “default” tariffs rather […]
226,000 homes receive energy efficiency upgrades under ECO or Green Deal schemes
Since the start of May 2015 to end April 2016 around 226,000 homes have had at least one energy efficiency measure installed under the ECO or the Green Deal schemes, recent data released by the DECC has been able to suggest. The Government has established a target to “support low-cost measures on energy efficiency, with the […]
Local authority commits to massive energy savings
A local authority in England has revealed plans to slash its carbon emissions by up to 60% by 2025, a news report has been able to reveal. Suffolk County Council has acknowledged the fact that investment in the region’s housing stock will be vital to hitting this target. And as a first measure, it has […]
Vast majority of housing consumers want information on the energy efficiency of homes
92% of housing consumers in Australia would like information on the energy efficiency of homes from service providers as part of sale and lease processes, while 89% said that an energy-efficient home would be more attractive to buy or rent, recent research by the CSIRO and Common Capital for the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for […]