Tim Pollard of the Plumb Center addresses last week’s parliamentary reception Plumb Center has launched an initiative to highlight affordable measures that most households could install to help reduce their utility bills.

Clear signal: Greater Manchester’s Horwich Parkway Railway Station has halved its carbon emissions with an 11kW wind turbine England’s largest railway station wind turbine has begun operating significantly cutting carbon emissions at Horwich Parkway.

Renewable energy business network ecoConnect has announced a nationwide call for innovators in green technology to come forward for Cleantech Innovate.

Enact Energy has been recognised for the work it is doing in Cornwall and the South West after being shortlisted for an award at the South West Green Energy Awards.

The Renewable Energy Association has welcomed today’s report from Imperial College London which argues that carbon pricing on its own is not enough to attract adequate investment in renewables.

Down the line: Jonathan Selwyn (front) and colleagues from Lark Energy pictured when PV panels were installed on the roof of Southfield House in 2010. In 2010, housebuilder and developer Larkfleet Group installed PV panels on the roof of its HQ building in Bourne,Lincolnshire. Two years later, the company says it is producing more electricity that predicted.

The government has announced the launch of a £40m competition aimed at encouraging local initiatives to increase energy efficiency, reduce fuel poverty and drive collective switching and purchasing.

A carbon reduction consultancy has stepped forward to criticise the government’s intention to offer cash back to early adopter of Green Deal.

The government has announced that upto £1,000 cash back will be offered to homeowners in England and Wales who sign up to Green Deal.

DECC is offering the chance for innovators in energy storage to be given cash to develop their ideas.

The Renewable Energy Association has set out 10 key demands which it says will make Electricity Market Reforms planned by the government work.

Energy secretary Ed Davey has moved to assure business leaders that the government will provide certainty to potential investors in the nation’s energy generating capacity.

Big Society Capital’s ceo Nick O’Donohoe PURE – the Clean Planet Trust, a carbon reduction charity, has announced it has secured a £1 million investment from Big Society Capital, which it says will enable PURE to fund up to 70 community energy projects, marking a significant milestone in its efforts to deliver a £7 million income boost to deprived communities across the UK.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has responded to a call by Which? for an independent review into the rising cost of domestic energy bills.

The Yearsley Group’s site in Newark The UK’s largest cold food storage provider, The Yearsley Group, says it has made impressive savings in electricity bills due to its PV installations.

Many companies in the environmental development industry are failing to claim money they are entitled to, according to tax specialists  R & T Consultants.

Washington-based Schiedel Chimney Systems has launched what it says is the only centre to offer HETAS approved biomass boiler installation courses in the northern half of the UK.

UK consumers fear rising energy prices more than anything else when it comes to the squeeze on household finances.