Energy Secretary Edward Davey has underlined the Government’s commitment to deal with the UK’s nuclear legacy and to ensure that the nuclear new build programme learns every lesson from past mistakes. He said policies to ensure new nuclear operators cover their waste...
The current construction of new homes is only half of what is really needed to even scratch the surface of what is required to meet the demand for housing. Yet the National Home Improvement Council says there are millions of empty homes and other buildings all over...
Eliminating fuel poverty is a major issue for the National Home Improvement Council, consequently Dr Lubo Jankovic’s, Birmingham City University, research is highly welcomed. His call for action coincides with the publication of his latest research in a book entitled:...
According to Drew Carter, director of the Institute of Kitchen, Bathroom and Bedroom Installers (iKBBI), next week’s KBB 2012 exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham,(4-7th March ),‘couldn’t have come at a better time!’ Last summer, iKBBI announced Phase One of its...
A new social enterprise, Communities for Renewables CIC, is being launched to enable communities to generate their own power by developing renewable energy projects. The company has been established by the independent renewables experts Regen SW and specialist...
We are up the creek without a paddle and not a lot of water either and will the Water White Paper save us? It’s very doubtful but the All Party Parliamentary Water Group put a brave face on things at last night’s (21st February) meeting in the House of Commons. There...
It will soon be time for a spring clean and what better than de-clutteringthose large storage cupboards and adding facilities to your home! Saniflo small-bore macerator pumping systems facilitate the addition of extra amenities almost anywhere. The unobtrusive units...
The UK and France today put the green economy and energy security at the heart of their relationship. This came as companies from both nations agreed a raft of commercial deals, and the two governments signed up to new agreements to cooperate on energy issues. Deals...
Implications of the Green Deal were at the centre of an exclusive NHIC Members Forum when Charles Phillips, the DECC’s deputy director, lead this controversial debate. He described it as ‘a genuinely stimulating session’ in which he was ‘challenged’ by a ‘reasonably...
Lord Ezra, founder chairman of the National Home Improvement Council, highlighted in the drastic increase in fuel poverty at question time in the House of Lords, on 16 February. The government submitted that an increasing number of people are living in fuel poverty...
‘Be Gas Safe’ is a major new awareness programme launched to further raise public awareness by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Gas Safe Charity. Called the “silent killer” this important carbon monoxide (CO) initiative will see 10,000...
The Government 'certainly needed to take steps to stabilise the Feed-in Tariff', according to Gaynor Hartnell, chief executive of the Renewable Energy Association and it welcomed the consultation. She pointed out: "The ultimate aim should be tariffs that deliver a...
Plans to make the Feed-In Tariff scheme ‘more transparent’ and more predictable for the future, were announced today by the government. At the heart of the new initiative are said to be ‘transparency, longevity and certainty.’ Reforms to the scheme were said to...
Ed Davey, the government’s new Energy and Climate Change Secretary today launched a new offensive, with the creation of a dedicated team within DECC. This has been assembled to spearhead energy efficiency policy and make it more relevant to people’s everyday lives....
Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change has commissioned a special report concerning fuel poverty from Professor John Hills, Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics s. It is due to be published this month although no specific...
For the Coalition Government, tackling climate change, securing our future energy supplies and making an ambitious transition to a low carbon, high growth economy is an urgent and vital task, writes Greg Barker, MP, Energy & Climate Change Minister. Energy...
Chris Huhne’s recent departure as Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, might be a blessing in disguise for him, bearing in mind the somewhat fragile state of the government’s Green Deal initiative. Green Deal has the potential to play an important role...
The recently published Water White Paper was scrutinised last night (Tuesday 31 January) at a special meeting in the House of Commons. It was suggested that the White Paper was overdue and very much needed! The speakers at the All Party Parliamentary Water Group...
Consumers should avoid being tempted by a cheap cash deal and protect themselves against paying more in the long term, says the FMB in response to comments by the HMRC Permanent Secretary in the Telegraph. Brian Berry, FMB director of external affairs, said: “We are...
RICS has urged the government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change to provide a clear strategy for the Green Deal in order to generate vital confidence in the scheme. It says that whilst the Green Deal was a useful way of funding improvements in the UK's...