Devon and Somerset Trading Standards has launched a new 'Buy with Confidence' website that aims to protect buyers - and an award-winning solar business is backing its campaign all the way. Marsh-Barton-based SunGift Energy, which is the UK Solar Installer of the Year, frequently encounters renewable energy installers and other tradespeople that do poor quality work, and the company believes that more householders must made be aware of where they can go to find a reliable company. "We’re in favour of anything that helps protect buyers and rid the world of rogue traders," said Gabriel...
Clare Garner is on the surface of it like any other 28 year old woman. However, if you dig a bit deeper you will realise she is quite remarkable!
Born and bred in North Devon she moved to Exeter eight years ago with her partner and young daughter to start a new life.
Always very entrepreneurial at heart, it was only a matter of time until she set up her own company.
After floating around in different roles she ended up falling into the corporate cost management sector with a local company. Straight away she knew it was the path for her.
Around £10.2 million was saved by 145,000 households in the South West in the last six months, simply by changing electricity supplier.
The figures, released as part of the ‘Power to Switch’ campaign, show that within the South West:
The ‘Power to Switch’ campaign encourages people to switch supplier and save money by visiting www.BeAnEnergyShopper.com . Millions of people can save around £200 - and some can save even more.
Nationally, during a four week period for the campaign, both gas and electricity switches through price comparison sites resulted in 130,000...
Award-winning Devon Farm shop Darts Farm is nationally renowned for sourcing first-rate local produce, so it’s no surprise that the businesses has kicked off 2015 by generating 1/3 of its own energy onsite too.
Darts Farm already had a solar ‘tracker’ and a 300-panel roof-mounted system, which was installed in 2011, but this new move has added another 326 panels, resulting in a total of 170 kWp of solar PV.
“At Darts Farm we have a clear belief that everyone can do their bit reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, and this is the next step in our journey,” said owner...
Today’s new Fuel Poverty Strategy sets out a revolutionary approach to identifying and targeting England’s energy inefficient homes.
Future Governments will now, for the first time, be required by law to tackle fuel poverty by making the coldest, leakiest homes in England more energy efficient.
This new Fuel Poverty Strategy – the first for over a decade – outlines challenges and actions for the next 15 years to ensure future Governments take the right steps to tackle fuel poverty and get help to those who need it most.
Households in Exeter estimate that they spend more than £850 per year on heating bills, yet nearly three quarters of adults still feel cold at home according to new research from Barratt Homes.
Spending patterns on heating vary significantly across the country, the Scots are the biggest spenders paying £171 more than those in the South West.
According to research, the biggest influence on heating bills is the age of the property.
Typical new-build homeowners save on average £600 per year when it comes to heating bills. And the gap between old and new is growing – a...
With the launch of the high profile national campaign This Girl Can, Exeter based South West Athletics is echoing this call to action by encouraging more women and girls into athletics and into coaching.
Director of Coaching Sonya Ellis has long been an advocate for more women coaches in sport and already has a number of athletes going through athletics coaching awards.
In addition, SW Athletics has taken on an apprentice assistant coach, Angela Lynn, who is a mother of two and has already successfully completed her coaching assistant’s award and is part way through her...
A low carbon heating project led by E.ON working with the University of Exeter and technology providers SK Solar and Star Renewable Energy has been awarded a Government research grant to carry out the feasibility work to create a UK-first community-wide energy scheme based on emissions-free renewable energy sources.
The project, to be funded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is based at E.ON’s energy centre in Cranbrook to the east of Exeter will seek to demonstrate how solar thermal panels and heat pumps can replace or work alongside the existing gas-fired...
ZERO, a leading renewables company based in Sowton, Exeter, has been shortlisted in a national Government-led competition to help drive down energy bills and boost low carbon heat supplies in the UK.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Davey, officially unveiled the 17 winning entries at the Association for Decentralised Energy Parliamentary Reception on Tuesday, 20 January. The winners are spread across the country and will share a prize pool of £1 million to carry out feasibility studies, before up to 10 of the best projects bid for a share of £6 million to fully implement...
Devon County Council’s Cabinet have endorsed a report by the Place Scrutiny Committee on energy consumption and renewable energy.
It recommends closely looking at the way the Council manages its energy consumption and that it should consider investing in renewable energy to generate income.
The Energy Policy Task Group recognised that the County Council has a current energy spend of about £18m per year.
Evidence suggests that these figures could be greatly reduced by making some simple changes for example, switching off unnecessary lighting and making sure the...
