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Want lower commercial building running costs? Look what's on the Horizon…

Horizon House, the Environment Agency’s new corporate office in Bristol, was recently awarded the highest ever BREEAM score for an office in the UK. It perfectly illustrates a big win for the building’s occupiers: a 10% saving in running costs due to being in a sustainable office building. Until you can occupy a building like that, there are other money-saving suggestions you can implement from a commercial EPC.

Monday 22nd March 2010 | 0 Comments

Get paid to produce your own energy! UK feed-in tariffs on the way…

Renewables just got a lot more interesting. From April this year, a scheme will be launched that encourages British homes and small businesses to generate renewable electricity by paying you to produce it. That means paying you for every unit you produce, up to 5 MWh a year — even what you use yourself. It [...]

Friday 19th February 2010 | 2 Comments

What Copenhagen delegates could learn from the Danes

If the 98 world leaders were to get to the Danish capital a few days early and have a nose around their host country, they’d pick up a large number of clues as to what they could be doing already to cut CO². Here’s my rundown of five “Danish Lessons” our Copenhagen delegates could learn from the the country hosting the summit.

Thursday 3rd December 2009 | 4 Comments