It was a deal to make Alistair Darling hug himself with glee. Just as the world’s existing financial markets were hitting a five-year low two weeks ago, the Treasury raked in a cool £54m from a brand new one. The occasion was Britain’s first auc

The Carbon Trust has doubled the size of loans available to small and medium sized businesses for upgrading to energy efficient equipment and also doubled its grants for research into technology that can cut carbon emissions. The Energy Efficiency lo

New smart metering technology to measure energy use in the home would benefit electricity suppliers, consumers and meter distributors – but a lack of clarity over precisely where the benefits will fall is slowing the rollout, according to panelists

According to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), solar panels are not a good way to fight climate change as the cost of these panels take about a century to pay back the cost the install them. The new guidelines on producing energy e

A new breakthrough could allow sunshine to become one of the most important sources of clean renewable energy, it has been claimed. Up to now solar power has been a "Cinderella" energy source because storing the sun's energy is so expensive and ineff