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1st September 2021 Registered providers of social housing in England can now apply for funding to improve the energy performance of their social homes. Originally promised as part of the Conservative Party’s 2019 election manifesto, the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHFD) is set to be worth £3.8bn over the next 10 years to improve the […]

23rd August 2021 The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has recently launched a new consultation called “Strengthening ESOS”. This focuses on proposals to broaden the current reporting requirements for ESOS and increase the adoption of energy efficiency measures by participating businesses. ESOS has so far resulted in estimated annual energy savings of […]

20th August 2021 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered a stark warning last week when it released its latest report. Documenting the unprecedented changes that climate change will have on our everyday lives over the next 100 years and beyond. In this follow-up blog we take a look at what this report means […]

11th August 2021 Ofgem is undertaking one of its biggest-ever overhauls of network charging.  This has major implications for companies seeking to connect to, or upgrade existing connections, to the grid. Known as the Network Access and Forward Looking Charges Significant Code Review (SCR), it aims to make it easier to reinforce the electricity grid. […]

10th August 2021 The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6), which will form the cornerstone of climate science for the years ahead. The assessment reports come in groups of three. This first report outlines the projected impacts of five emissions scenarios, which […]

13th July 2021 If you deprive your body of water, you will be dead within a week. The survival rate is similar for some of the largest manufacturers who are equally dependent on water to make food, clothing, beverages, electronics, chemicals, computer chips and many more products. Water plays a vital role in manufacturing, but […]

5th July 2021 What is ESG reporting? ESG is an acronym that has been heard a lot recently in the social housing world. It stands for environmental, social and governance, and refers to a way of measuring the performance of an organisation in terms of its environmental and social impacts and risks, and the quality […]

30th June 2021 – In June 2021 NHS England released new Green Plan guidance to all NHS Trusts and ICS’s (Integrated Care Systems). The aim of the revised guidance is to ensure Green Plans are consistent and align with the goals and objectives set by NHS England in the ‘Delivering a net zero national health […]

22nd June 2021 As NHS Trusts begin to plot their path to achieve net zero by 2045, all are faced with the challenge of how to successfully decarbonise heat. One of the potential solutions currently being debated is hydrogen heating. In this blog we break down the different types of hydrogen and discuss whether hydrogen […]

26th May 2021 Things have certainly changed since the height of the first Industrial Revolution when Britain was known as the “Workshop of the World”. But manufacturing still plays an essential role in the UK economy, contributing £170 billion annually – 9% of the UK’s GDP, and providing 2.6 million direct jobs (ONS, Annual Business […]

12th May 2021 In July 2021 NHS England will launch a campaign that will ask more than 1 million staff members to make a commitment to help the health service achieve its goal of being the worlds first net zero carbon national health service by 2045. The campaign will launch in July as the NHS […]

6th May 2021 With a flurry of new international commitments from governments as they position themselves ahead of COP26 in the autumn, the importance and priority that should be associated with carbon offsetting is again to the fore. But there seems to remain a degree of confusion as to where is the right time and […]