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A Government-commissioned report has found that UK homeowners are wasting more than £1 billion a year powering appliances they are not using.

A series of roundtable discussions, organised by the University of Exeter, SSE, Consumer Focus and WWF has found that Government’s draft Energy Bill and existing energy efficiency policies will fail to deliver a secure, clean and affordable power sector for the UK and would result in the UK missing out on some key economic growth opportunities.

Strategic Energy is set to install 1,000 PV panels on Hafod Housing Association properties under a newly signed agreement. The South Wales-based association has commissioned the work as part of its drive to bring social benefits to its communities.

Twelve months on since operations began at Westmill Solar Farm Cooperative, near Swindon, Government Minister for Culture, Communication and Creative Industries Ed Vaizy officially launched a share offer to invest in the development. Hundreds of people from across the UK attended the launch as part of an energy and sustainability fair held at the site of the solar farm at Watchfield, just outside Swindon. The aim of the farm was always to turn it into a cooperative similar to the Westmill Wind Farm Cooperative which has five wind turbines on the same site.

Every household in the Slough district will get the chance of receiving free cavity wall and loft installation.

The owner of renewable energy company Freewatt is on a mission to transform a 300-year-old Georgian home into an energy efficient blueprint for the future.

Eco Environments has been selected by Wigan-based Armstrong Point to install a range of renewable energy technologies at the UK’s first zero energy-cost business park. The £2.7 million development will include the installation of 90kWp of solar PV, a 6kW wind turbine, nine solar thermal hot water systems and nine heat pumps.

UK homeowners are more forward-thinking than house builders when it comes to energy efficiency and renewables. These are the findings of the NHBC Trust’s latest report, Today’s attitudes to low and zero carbon homes, which states that there is a significant gap between what the customer wants and what is actually being constructed.

According to the latest research from the British Standards Institute (BSI) only one in five homeowners is likely to sign up for the Green Deal. The majority of the 1,200 respondents admitted that they knew too little about the scheme to take part.

Bright Spark Solar has recently completed a 36kWp solar installation atop Plum Baby’s office building in Taplow.