Tag: British Gas

Barratt Redrow and British Gas partnership gives consumers homes with ‘free energy’

Stuart Mitchell

Barratt Redrow, the UK’s biggest housebuilder, has teamed-up with energy leader British Gas to deliver homes with free energy to a new development in Lincolnshire – the first of a wider partnership roll-out over the coming year. The groundbreaking trial at the Pastures Place development will see 10 homeowners pay no energy bills on their homes for two years in return for sharing data on the use of their home’s eco technology and their home in use, enabling the partners to understand how consumers adapt to living in a home…

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British Gas joins major consortium aspiring to decarbonise up to 1,000 social housing homes

Stuart Mitchell

British Gas has joined a consortium, alongside NatWest, Places for People, Sero and Tallarna, aimed at revolutionising the retrofitting of social housing. The trial, which will be desktop piloted on 1,000 homes owned by Places for People, will see a new financial model look to quantify the environmental, financial and health benefits for residents while acting as a real-world testbed for reducing the upfront cost of net zero for landlords.  The approach will potentially bring energy savings to social housing residents and reduce the upfront cost barrier by exploring alternative…

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British Gas Marketing Head to take on 3,000 mile Atlantic row with all-female crew

Stuart Mitchell

A team of working mothers including British Gas New Energy Platforms Head of Marketing and Brand, Felicity Ashley are marking International Women’s Day with a commitment to “The World’s Toughest Row”; rowing across 3,000 miles of Atlantic ocean over 40 days in a 26ft boat. The crew, which is made up of four women with 11 children between them, have named themselves The Mothership. The race, known as The Tallisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, will begin on 12th December and see the team row, unaided, from La Gomera, Canary Islands to…

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British Gas makes largest UK commercial EV order with Vauxhall and commits to accelerating the electrification of its fleet

Stuart Mitchell

British Gas has announced that it is ordering 2,000 new all-electric Vivaro-e vans from Vauxhall and has introduced plans to never purchase another combustion engine vehicle. As part of its commitment to become a net zero organisation, Centrica, owner of British Gas, has committed electrify its 12,000 strong operational fleet by 2025, five years earlier than originally planned and will be making further orders with Vauxhall for electric vehicles as soon as they are available. Centrica has also committed to make its 1,500 company cars EV only in the same…

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British Gas partners with the Trussell Trust to help food banks during Coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

British Gas will be working with Trussell Trust by encouraging its people to volunteer with a local food bank. The Trussell Trust is seeing three main challenges impacting food banks as a result of Coronavirus and British Gas will be working with it to address these: To prevent the spread of the virus food banks have moved to a system where they are delivering parcels to the doorsteps of the people that need them most, rather than encouraging groups of people to come together at a food bank centre. British…

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