Which Gadgets Can Help Us Save Energy At Home And Work?
We all want to save energy both at home and at work but are there any gadgets that can us to achieve this?
As homes and businesses become full of gadgets it seems almost impossible to save energy. However, there are gadgets that can help cut your energy use and therefore help you save money on your energy bills.
One of those gadgets is the smart meter. Utility Exchange has ...
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Energy Suppliers To Foot Fuel Poverty Bill
British Gas, EDF, E.ON, npower, Scottishpower and Scottish and Southern Energy - are to spend £1.7 billion to tackle fuel poverty.
The ‘big six’ energy suppliers are to provide almost all funds needed under the governments statutory obligation to get all households out of fuel poverty by 2016.
Fuel poverty arises when in order to heat a home to an adequate standard of warmth - a household has to spend ...
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Who Invented Electric Christmas Lights?
It’s Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, people unravelling Christmas lights, but who invented Christmas lights and when?
Not so long ago Christmas lights were simply red, white and blue and wrapped round your Christmas tree. Now they are so advanced only children can understand how they work!
So while you’re trying to unravel that 40m string of lights let’s take a look at who invented them. The first strand of ...
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Christmas Business Energy Saving Tips
Christmas is the time of year when electricity bills can rocket so what can we do to reduce business energy costs over Christmas?
Approaching Christmas, with all the extra costs that are involved, it’s important to save energy and resources in the office over the festive period. So here are a few tips to save business energy over the Christmas period and reduce business electricity costs.
* Turn off your ...
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Should There Be Smart Grid Penalty Protection?
Ofgem considers whether 'smart grid' projects should be protected from interruption penalties.
Gas and electricity regulator Ofgem is to decide if electricity distribution network operators' (DNOs) low carbon network fund (LCNF) projects should be exempt from penalties imposed on DNOs for power outages.
The £500 million LCNF has been set up to help DNO’s trial new ‘smart grid’ technologies and last month CE Networks, Central Networks, UK Power Networks and Western ...
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How To Defy Energy Price Rises
Homeowners and businesses face exceptionally higher energy bills this winter.
There is a way to beat the price increases imposed by gas and electricity suppliers...
Four of the ‘big six’ energy providers; British Gas, npower, ScottishPower and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) have announced price rises already this winter, E.ON has yet to announce increases to it gas and electricity tariffs – but is likely to very soon, and EDF ...
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Fishermen Raise Offshore Windfarm Concerns
Fishermen in Scotland are concerned that a proposed offshore wind farm will slice through important fishing ground.
There are a number of offshore developments planned for offshore wind farms in the Forth & Tay estuaries, all of which plan to install large turbines in the estuaries.
The Forth & Tay Offshore Windfarm Developers Group is made up of Seagreen Wind Energy, mainstream Renewables Power and SeaEnergy Renewables. Members of the ...
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Track Electricity Usage Via WiFi With Google PowerMeter
Google's PowerMeter Web App now tracks home electricity via WiFi.
The web application for Google’s PowerMeter can now monitor a home’s electricity consumption from a PC or smartphone using Wi-Fi and a home's broadband connection.
According to reports Blue Line Innovations is combining its PowerCost Monitor with Google's PowerMeter to maximise home energy monitoring where together with a WiFi Gateway (also through Blue Line Innovations) a person can view real-time ...
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Keep Business Electricity Bills To A Minimum At Christmas
How can we keep business electricity bills to a minimum at Christmas when it’s cold and dark outside?
It’s the time of year when it’s dark early and very cold so it comes as no surprise that homes and businesses try to create a bit of cheer by putting up lights and other decorations but how is it possible to keep those business electricity bills to a minimum at ...
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BP Sells Further Gas Business
BP to auction Canadian natural gas business to help pay for Gulf oil disaster.
Global gas and oil group BP is selling its Canadian natural gas business including pipelines, storage and processing plants, for approximately £1.29 billion.
This latest move comes as BP strives to sell assets totalling £19 billion - to help pay for the associated costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster which occurred after there ...
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