Editor’s blog

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Lessons in regulation from ASA

From New Power in September 2019: This week The Advertising Standards Authority took a good look at claims that smart meters have environmental benefits. In response to complaints, it considered whether Smart Energy GB could stand up claims thata smart…

Review: The Green Start-Up

Juliet Davenport compares launching a company with jumping off a cliff, in ‘The Green Start-Up’, her new book for green entrepreneurs. She has drawn on her experience launching Good Energy in 1999 and working with other companies since then, in…

Come clean on gas boilers

At around 1.6 million units annually, the UK’s boiler replacement market is huge. It was ‘world beating’ until 2017 (um, yay us?), when it was finally overtaken by China and North Korea. It was easily bigger than the next-largest markets…