Tuesday, December 7, 2010

BRITISH GAS NOW ACQUIRES HEAT PUMP MANUFACTURER

British gas has recently acquired a manufacturer of Cool Planet Technologies for pound 500,000. The company has purchased assets in Cool planet and may thus have a number of energy customer looking forward to further cut down on their carbon footprints by going fro BG.

Cool Planet specializes in designing, selling and installing ground and air source heat pumps. These may be opted for by consumers on a commercial and direct-to-consumer basis.

The green revolution has already begun in the United Kingdom as companies are looking at cutting down on their carbons footprints as much as possible. Coal powered and nuclear powered energy plants are shutting down making way for cleaner wind powered plants and related technologies that are eco friendly as well as renewable.

In fact United Kingdom itself is looking at cutting down on its green house gas emissions by up to as much as eighty percent by the end of 2050.

They are actually planning for a shot term goal to be achieved by 2020. This would be of cutting down on their emissions by thirty four percent. The acquisition on part of BG is simply an ingenious one as they look at getting clean energy which would not just do savings as far as the bill is concerned but also save the environment in the long run.

Add to this the fact that it would be among the things to rely on in order to meet with the UK requirement to cut down on their carbon footprints drastically by 2050 as under the Climate Change Act 2008.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

British Gas enters the Smart Meter campaign by getting stakes in AlertMe

In a move to see itself updated in every which ways while providing the best of services and products to its customers, British Gas has purchased 15.96 per cent stakes in AlertMe for a decent sum of £5.7m.

AlertMe is an energy management company which greatly helped people in managing their energy bills better. The smart meters to be installed in the customers’ homes for once will have people efficiently managing their energy bills, keeping a check on their energy consumption and other such related things. They might as well effortlessly pay their bills with the help of the famous smart meters.

One may easily do so with the help of these AlertMe tools and the home area network platform, while the rise of next generation computers and cellular phones also see giving more freedom to people dealing with these issues. This ultimately results in not only better savings and time efficiency but also the fact that people may as well become more aware of the energy and gas services market. They will thus be getting absolute relevant information and updates.

SET Venture Partners, Good Energies and Index Ventures are some of the other names attached in the current investors list that Brutish Gas has joined. Landis+Gyr will be manufacturing a massive number of units for the two million strong base of British Gas customers which sums up to a big deal of £200m.

On the other hand OnStream has green signaled a contract of £2.4m with the company Logica to give energy management services to its customers. They plan to be giving out smart meters to atleast 26,000 customers by the end of 2015.

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