Renewable and alternative energy

The Government has announced that it will end payments for any solar panels which are installed from April next year. 

Were households right to follow MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis's "do nothing" energy mantra and stick with the price cap since October 2021? Martin answers this question in his new video on the energy crisis below, as well as explaining what might be next for energy bills. 

The energy price cap is now expected to rise by over 40% next April, MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis warned in the latest episode of The Martin Lewis Money Show. But despite the "horrendous" projected increase, Martin explained that households are still likely to be better off "doing nothing" for now, given how expensive the cheapest fixed tariffs are currently.

Brits wanting to fit a low-carbon heat pump in their homes in England and Wales could receive a one-off £5,000 grant from the Government to help replace less efficient gas boilers from April 2022. The initiative is part of a £3.9 billion project to make all heating systems low carbon by 2035.

A review into green electricity tariffs is to be launched by the government following concerns energy suppliers could be exaggerating their environmental benefits.

A new plan to pay households with solar panels for the excess electricity they produce has been announced by the Government – but it won't come in before April, when the current scheme ends.

Green energy supplier Bulb is raising its prices for the third time this year, with 750,000 existing customers to be hit by a whopping rise of over 11% in November.