Sustainability News – Page 33
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NewsSkanska tops list of green construction companies
Engineers WS Atkins, BAM and Carillion all highly rated in first government poll of firms’ carbon measurment
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NewsGovernment may phase in FIT cuts
Fitters may no longer have to hand back deposits to customers unable to meet the current tariff deadline
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NewsNPPF ‘open to legal challenge’ warn MPs
Parliamentary committee brands reforms ‘contradictory and confusing’
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NewsFriends of the Earth will lodge legal challenge to FIT cut
Friends of the Earth decide to lodge legal challenge after the government fails to withdraw its plans
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NewsScotland to get £100m for renewable energy projects
A further £100m drawn from the fossil fuel levy will be used to capitalise the Green Investment Bank.
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NewsSustainability Now: Watch the highlights
All videos and webinars from the two-day Sustainability Now conference are now available to view
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NewsGreen developer BioRegional Quintain to be wound up
Chief executive confirms firm will shut as listed parent company Quintain focuses on London market
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NewsClients cancel solar projects worth millions
Move follows government’s decision to slash the feed-in tariff subsidy
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News‘Change of use’ policy could be watered down
Whitehall rows over plans to make it easier to converts offices in to flats, the FT reports
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NewsMears blames PV tariff cut for profit warning
Social housing firm writes off £2m in investment after slash in FiT makes PV commercially unviable
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NewsMore councils scrap solar schemes
Some have halted projects, but others hope to rush them through
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NewsFriends of the Earth threatens legal action over feed-in tariff cut
Green charity will seek a judicial review if government’s decision is not reversed within a week
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NewsCouncils scrap solar panel plans as feed-in tariff cut looms
Leeds council and Reading council are among those affected
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NewsWillmott Dixon completes eight-storey cross-laminated timber building
Contractors claims use of solid cross-laminated timber on East London apartment block saved 892 tonnes of carbon
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NewsFIT cuts threaten 25,000 jobs
Plans announced this week to reduce feed-in-tarrif to 21p per kWh
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NewsRLB launches sustainability ‘health check’ service
Launch follows successful trials for Tesco and the Ministry of Justice
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NewsFeed-in tariffs cut could cost 12,500 jobs
Tight government deadlines for the end of the current rate for PVs expected to result in rapid loss of PV jobs
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NewsGovernment slashes FITs rate to 21p per kWh
Greg Barker announces plans to half feed-in tariff for solar PV
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NewsHomes with solar power will have to meet efficiency standards
Minister confirms feed-in tariffs will be cut
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NewsSolar tariffs below 28p will devastate PV industry
The government is warned that cuts in Feed in Tariffs fall for PVs would be massive blow to sector