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Spring Statement: The ADE Responds

The ADE’s campaign to cut VAT on energy efficiency sees success but more is needed for customers facing high energy bills.

Protecting UK energy security is impossible without heat networks and energy efficiency

Heat networks, flexibility and energy efficiency technologies help reduce gas demand.  These measures improve national energy security, cut bills...

The ADE comments on Scotland’s new £300 million Heat Network Fund

The Scottish Government has announced a new £300 million Heat Network Fund, which aims to accelerate the deployment of heat networks across the country and drive progress towards domestic and commercial decarbonisation. 

The ADE: ‘Financial support is welcome, but we need a real, lasting plan to lower bills permanently’

The ADE welcomes energy bill rebate but notes that without a further plan, it is a ‘sticking plaster’...

The ADE: ‘Government must step up to the plate if the UK is to deliver low carbon heat’

More sustained policy from Government is needed to drive certainty and investment in low carbon heat.  Heat networks and...

Government publishes outcomes of the Future Buildings Standard consultation - ADE Responds

The government hosted a public consultation from January to April 2021 on proposed changes to the Building Regulations. The government has now responded to that consultation, covering energy efficiency, ventilation and overheating.

Local authorities land sustainable warmth funding - ADE responds

Today the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released the list of local authorities that have been successful in securing funding as part of the Sustainable Warmth Competition, that combines the Local Authority Delivery Phase 3 (LAD3) and Home Upgrade Grant Phase 1 (HUG1).

Government must leverage private investment to stop 10,000 annual deaths

The UK Government needs to leverage private investment in energy efficiency retrofits, grid flexibility and low carbon heat to help avoid the 10,000 annual deaths attributed to fuel poverty each year, says the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) on Fuel Poverty Awareness Day.

We need you to engage with your supply chain

Your supply chain partners have a chance to submit their views to BEIS – make sure they don’t miss it. 

Social Energy closes electricity and gas supply business, continues in solar battery optimisation

Renewable energy scale-up Social Energy has taken the decision to close its electricity and gas supply business in light of untenable current market conditions, but will continue to operate as a solar battery optimisation company, selling smart battery systems and providing ongoing savings to its customers.

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