Next month the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is sponsoring an energy efficiency award at London’s Energy Management Exhibition (EMEX). The Secretary of State, Amber Rudd, and I want to ensure the Department and its policies support an …
Whitbread is the owner of some household name brands including Premier Inn, Costa Coffee and Beefeater restaurants. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, ‘Good Together’, underpins all our business integrated thinking and aims to make us a force for good …
With releases one and two of the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund already helping thousands of people install energy saving improvements, the third release opening Monday 16th March is set to be just as popular. If you are thinking of …
Sam Kennedy, Head of Consumer Demand and Products Policy, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) How much thought do you put into saving energy in your home? Our recent survey shows that three-quarters of people give it a lot …
We've had an efficiency agenda in place at The Canal and River Trust, for quite some time now. We became a charity in 2012, so we were always trying to save money, not from the perspective of leaving it in …
Since the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund closed we’ve been busy behind the scenes. This blog provides an update of our activity. Payments to GDHIF applicants GDHIF has been extremely popular with over 21, 000 applications to the scheme when …
In late July we announced plans to change regulations in the private rented sector by imposing minimum energy efficiency standards. In this blog, we explain why and how these changes can help consumers to take control of their energy bills …
From today, people wanting to make energy saving home improvements can get up to £7600 from the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund to help with the cost of the work. This is an excellent opportunity that will make it substantially …