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UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) today told 170 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) how they could exploit the fastest-growing low carbon markets in the world as it produced figures showing that the low carbon sector is already worth some £112 billion and employs 900,000 people in the UK.
A new company has formed to partner with landowners, commercial property owners and managers, to build, own and operate wind and solar power generating assets on sites across the UK.
Carbon traders’ confidence in future carbon market expansion has been dented by the failure of governments to secure a binding global climate deal in Copenhagen last December.
The Government has said 65,000 jobs could be created as a result of its new green strategy for British homes announced today.
Businesses are being invited to bid to share in a £5 million capital grant programme for developing plastics recycling facilities in Scotland.
Global engineering company Siemens has invested in the British company behind the world’s first single commercial-scale tidal stream turbine, providing a boost to the UK’s emerging marine energy sector.
The Government has today announced more incentives to jump-start the take-up of electric vehicles, including £5 million of funding to introduce 2,430 charging points for electric vehicles in Milton Keynes and car grants.
The Energy Grant 500 aims to help SMEs in the South East improve their energy efficiency – and it's proving popular, with hundreds of applications being approved since it launched a year ago. Louise Bateman reports.
A new £4 million fund has been launched across the northwest to act as a catalyst for rural, regional renewable projects.
The UK is positioning itself as one of the biggest offshore wind markets in the world, with the potential to deliver thousands of British jobs, but it still has no major manufacturer investing in it. Louise Bateman reports.