SMEs get green light for energy reduction programme

Tower Hamlets SMEs can benefit from a new Energy Reduction Programme to reduce energy costs and carbon footprint, with successful applicants receiving on-site audits and workshops

One million measures and the dizzy heights of insulation

  On the windy rooftop of a tower block in the heart of Tower Hamlets, the Energy Secretary is hard at work in a hardhat. When ELN arrives, Ed Davey is hearing all about… abseiling. Men dropping themselves down the side of 15-floor buildings may not sound like the obvious way to insulate them. But […]

UK’s first all electric pay-per-use car club launches

The UK’s first all electric pay-per-use car club has launched today in East London. The E-Car Club switched on the ignition in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where the company is working with the social housing landlord Poplar HARCA, the owner of 9,000 local homes. The first cars available to residents are the Renault […]