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The Warm Front scheme has piloted the installation of solar thermal heating for 125 households

There is a considerable awareness of the Low Carbon Transition Plan and the Feed-in-Tariff scheme

The main message coming out of SB’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme conference was that early adopters gain competitive advantage

A couple of much needed financial incentives for domestic retrofit emerged this month – from both sides of the Atlantic

The EU’s flagship Emissions Trading System is failing to deliver vital green investment, after a collapse in carbon prices

The Energy Bill has been considered in a public bill committee in 12 sessions last month

OFGEM has launched a certification scheme to show which “green electricity tariffs” have genuine environmental benefits

The National Trust is planning to reduce fossil fuel usage in its properties by 50% within the next 10 years

The Welsh Assembly Government has announced its own boiler scrappage scheme aimed at the over-60s for 2010-1 and says it expects up to 5,000 households to participate

By mid-February, householders had taken up 54,758 of the 125,000 boiler scrappage vouchers launched by DECC

The Government’s chief construction advisor, Paul Morrell, has called for demolition of most 1960s and 70s town and city centre buildings

By the end of last month Gemserv, the Microgeneration Certification Scheme administrator, had issued 519 MCS certificates

The Existing Homes Alliance has launched a manifesto for 2010 calling for national retrofitting to reduce emissions

The UKGBC's new chairman is Lend Lease Europe chief executive officer Daniel Labbad, who has succeeded Peter Rogers

Officials from DECC and DCLG are working closely with the Zero Carbon Hub's working group on carbon compliance