The pool of energy efficiency funds could grow again next year when the state carves up the estimated $200 million that power producers are expected to pay for carbon credits.
The company, one of the Big Six suppliers, had already paid £1.3m to affected customers and will pay a further £3.45m into an energy efficiency fund, plus an £800,000 penalty, the energy regulator said.
The company, one of the Big Six suppliers, had already paid £1.3 million to affected customers and will pay a further £3.45 million into an energy efficiency fund, plus an £800,000 penalty, the energy regulator said.
"We take any failure to meet our obligations very seriously and will ensure that the new energy efficiency fund we have set up will be a real help to hundreds of small businesses.
It has established a £1.2m energy efficiency fund for non-domestic buildings, has embarked on a programme of installing biomass boilers and solar arrays.
A specialized energy efficiency fund is interesting not only for investors but also for industrial customers and technology providers.
An energy efficiency fund provides investors with sufficient investment size whilst reducing the risks and improving the stability of cash flows through diversification.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2253/14/76/prepub This project was funded by the VAZ/CvZ Efficiency Fund and the Research Fund of the Maastricht University Medical Center.
The Obama administration has been pursuing many of these avenues — for example, some energy-efficiency funding in the stimulus bill requires states to promise to strengthen their building codes.
