BEIS announced on Sunday 9 June that the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) to replace the Feed-in Tariff export tariff is to launch today, Monday 10 June. In the announcement, BEIS said this will ensure that small-scale electricity generators installing solar, wind or other forms of renewable generation with a capacity…
Commons Select BEIS Committee Chair Rachel Reeves has written a letter to interim Minister for Energy and Clean Growth Chris Skidmore over “concerns” around the policy landscape for the small-scale renewables industry, including solar. In the letter, dated Tuesday 4 June, Reeves said the Committee is concerned that “consumers who…
BEIS has published its recent provisional monthly energy production, consumption and price statistics which deliver key insights from January to March 2019. Released on Thursday 30 May, it found that renewables were also up 11% on the same period of 2018, with renewables and wind reaching record highs of 37.4%…
BEIS has published the latest Household Energy Efficiency Statistics. Released on Friday 24 May, provisional figures show there were around 2.49mn measures installed in 1.97mn households under ECO up to the end of March 2019. Based on the first six months of data for ECO3, 28% of all installations were…
BEIS has published an update on the UK’s progress so far on achieving the Clean Growth Strategy Grand Challenge mission of halving the energy use of new buildings by 2030. In the Thursday 23 May update, BEIS said that so far, the government has: published the Construction Sector Deal; established…
BEIS published the Final Statement for the Second Carbon Budget Period on Thursday 23 May. The report showed that the second carbon budget (2013-17) was achieved by 14% – over the period the net UK carbon account was 2,398,125,993 tCO2e, which is 383,874,007 tCO2e (14%) below the cap of 2,782,000,000…
Business Secretary Greg Clark has released a statement welcoming the report released by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) but said that the government would not be “immediately accepting the recommendations” made. Instead, Clark said the government “will be responding in due course to ensure the UK continues to be…
The Commons BEIS Committee has urged the government to “move away from vague and ambiguous targets” and provide clear policy direction on carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS). This was the conclusion of a report published by the BEIS Committee on Thursday 25 April. It recommended that the government adopt…
The latest BEIS household energy efficiency statistics showed that 12,500 energy efficiency measures were installed under ECO3 in February 2019, representing an increase on January’s 8,500. Released on Thursday 18 April, the statistics also showed that based on the first five months of data for ECO3, up to end of…
An Energy Trends special feature article published by BEIS on Monday 15 April has found that the theoretical fuel expenditure derived from fuel poverty statistics is, on average, £133 higher than the actual consumption recorded in the National Energy Efficiency Data Framework for English dwellings, or 9.9% in percentage terms.…