News and communications

Schools, pools, and hospitals will be supported to make energy efficient upgrades, and businesses with high energy use will receive funding to help cut bills and emissions.

• Updated: 15 May 2024

New wide-ranging review to tackle barriers to make historic homes more energy efficient, while protecting the beauty of these buildings.

• Updated: 3 January 2024

Homeowners will be able to install rooftop solar panels more easily without costly planning delays.

• Updated: 30 November 2023

Public sector organisations can now bid for a share of £230 million to help make low-carbon energy upgrades to their buildings.

• Updated: 10 October 2023

More social housing tenants to receive energy efficiency upgrades in their home, with an additional £80 million under Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund.

• Updated: 2 October 2023

Today, 06 July 2023, the Boston Alternative Energy Facility (BAEF) application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. 

• Updated: 6 July 2023

£4.1 million awarded to green finance projects to help homeowners make their homes more energy efficient.

• Updated: 19 May 2023

Government awards £1.8 billion through Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, Home Upgrade Grant and Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme to upgrade social homes and public buildings.

• Updated: 22 March 2023

Public buildings across England will cut their use of expensive fossil fuels and save millions of pounds on bills, thanks to £553 million in government funding.

• Updated: 23 May 2022

New figures show an increase in supply of energy efficient homes as we build back better from the pandemic towards a greener future.

• Updated: 29 July 2021

Housing Minister Christopher Pincher's speech at the National Housing Federation event 'Smaller Housing Associations Conference and Exhibition'.

• Updated: 6 November 2020

A new digital service to help homeowners improve the energy performance of their homes and cut their energy bills has been launched.

• Updated: 30 September 2020

A new green standard for new build homes will bring an environmental revolution to home building.

• Updated: 1 October 2019

This circular letter informs building control bodies about nearly zero energy buildings requirements for new public buildings.

• Updated: 14 January 2019

Construction firms come together with Innovate UK support to find a more efficient way of building new primary schools with less impact on the environment.

• Updated: 28 September 2017

An independent review into the cost of energy led by Professor Dieter Helm CBE will recommend ways to keep energy prices as low as possible.

• Updated: 6 August 2017

If you’re a UK business or research organisation you can apply for a share of £15 million to develop innovative infrastructure solutions.

• Updated: 12 July 2017

Twenty innovative companies have completed an entrepreneur mission to San Francisco to meet potential customers, partners and investors.

• Updated: 16 June 2017

Reforms to the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) will be targeted at households struggling to pay their energy bills.

• Updated: 30 January 2017

Baroness Neville-Rolfe's keynote speech from the Policy Exchange event "The Heat Summit: How Can We Decarbonise Heating?"

• Updated: 14 December 2016