Banning stickers on fruit ‘would avoid 100m pieces of plastic waste a week’

BusinessWaste has urged the government to introduce new regulations to tackle the stickers, which are used as branding and to display bar code information

Britain hits 34-day coal-burning streak

The grid’s carbon intensity so far in 2021 is already higher than in 2020, marking the first year-on-year increase of this kind since 2012

Britain smashes record with grid flexibility up 45% on previous year

A total of 1.6GW has been contracted by national electricity distribution networks this year to date, freeing up this volume of capacity on the networks during peak periods of demand

‘Damaging climate change is already evident in UK weather’

The State of the UK Climate 2020 report emphasises that the national climate emergency is not a problem for the future – it is already here

Government sets out plans for UK’s next-gen nuclear fleet

It is now seeking views on its proposed plans to approach building the country’s first Advanced Modular Reactor demonstrator project

‘Government must ensure EV charging is convenient and inexpensive’

The Transport Committee has set out a series of recommendations for the government to follow if it is to deliver on its target of 100% of new vehicle sales being zero emission by 2035

Boris Johnson reportedly considers pushing gas boiler ban back to 2040

The move would delay the government’s plans to ban all new homes from installing gas and oil boilers from 2025

Government pledges to tackle energy bill ‘loyalty penalty’

It has announced new proposals to trial automatically switching longstanding customers on default energy tariffs to more affordable options

Nottingham City Council seeks £140m to tackle fuel poverty

It will spend the money on installing energy efficiency retrofits, improving housing stock and adopting more affordable renewable power

Energy Assets’ AI tech gives energy managers an extra set of eyes

I spoke with George Catto, Client Services Director for AMR DNA, about what Energy Assets AMR DNA, powered by kWIQly, machine learning technology is capable of – listen to the full podcast to find out more