Solar power splash: Leisure centre secures £400k grant

West Lindsey District Council has secured over £400,000 from the government’s Swimming Pool Support Fund to install solar panels at the West Lindsey Leisure Centre

Cut in energy bills must be prioritised over climate change, MP says

Sir Edward Leigh said people are worried about their “great big bloody heating bills”

Renewable energy firm buys two SSE wind sites

An energy company has bought two new wind farm sites from power supplier SSE’s renewable arm. SSE Renewables had previously consulted on installing up to 17 turbines at Brown’s Holt wind farm near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire and up to 22 turbines at the Woolfox farm in Rutland but RES is now planning to develop schemes […]

“Large-scale” water trade planned between counties

Two British water firms could share water in a rare swap of resources if the drought in the Midlands continues, it was announced today. The Midlands supplier Severn Trent Water is in “ongoing” talks with Anglian Water to send “large-scale” supplies to the East of England. As much as 30 million litres of raw water per day […]