All Sustainability articles – Page 62
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NewsGerman solar panel giant to enter UK market
Solarwatt says it plans to supply domestic and commercial photovoltaics into ’lagging’ UK market
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Wind power companies offer communities £2,000 per turbine
Announcement by Renewable UK in addition to government handing back wind farm business rates
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NewsCBI demands clarity on Green Deal
Government must clarify how retrofitting push will be funded and acredited, says Confederation of British Industry
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FeaturesRefurb: Comparing Passivhaus and Decent Homes
The government’s target of an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 means that housebuilders need to implement changes, starting now. But with so many ways to reduce emissions in new and existing homes, how do you decide which regulations to follow?
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NewsLocal communities to get wind farm business rates
Department of energy and climate change hopes money will ease opposition to new farms
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NewsHumberside wind farm gets green light
Energy secretary gives go ahead for E.on to build huge offshore farm
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NewsConstruction of new Renewable Energies Academy to begin
Shepherd Offshore to demolish and redevelop disused site by September
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NewsGreen light for UK’s biggest zero carbon homes site
Morris Homes will build 295 Code level 6 homes in Peterborough
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NewsGovernment concerned over feed in tariff funding for solar farms
Money targeted at household micro-generation being used to pay for fields of PV cells in Cornwall
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NewsAtkins and F+G form green consultancy division
’Single unit of environmental excellence’ for consultant Atkins and subsidiary Faithful + Gould
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£14.3m Eccles tower block refurb gets green light
Developer claims energy efficiency measures and PV cells could save tenants £200 a year in fuel bills
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NewsAKT wins role on £400m ski-slope incinerator
Copenhagan design by BIG architects combines leisure and waste energy plant
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NewsMPs attack planning changes
Committee on energy and climate change also question government assumptions over nuclear and carbon capture and storage
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NewsGreen gurus call for tighter rules on non-domestic buildings
UKGBC forms task group of developers, archtiects and engineers to ’sort out’ policy
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NewsWillmott Dixon to build pioneering zero carbon school
School will share energy centre with housing development to negate carbon footprint
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NewsFloating wetland centre scoops BREEAM award
Adam Khan Architect’s Brockholes visitor centre has won a BREEAM Outstanding award
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NewsGrimshaw submits design for Suffolk energy plant
Planning application sought for energy-from-waste facility near Ipswich
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NewsPeabody to spend £23m to fit solar panels
Social housing body to fit solar panels in a bid to become a carbon-neutral business
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NewsPlanned £400m waste energy plant to create 650 jobs
Infrastructure Planning Commission to rule on Welsh development within one month