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What seeks to be comprehensive review actually contains huge gaps and is devastating assessment of Tories’ failures

Lynmouth Road, Walthamstow, is about to become its own power station, with solar energy for 30 homes. Now the artists responsible want us all to change how we heat our homes

Built to Passivhaus standards, Goldsmith Street’s low-energy approach offers a pioneering approach to the housing crisis

Government investment should be targeted at cutting bills by cutting waste. Until then we will remain dependent

Liz Reason says engaging the community with energy production can add great value and make nimbyism irrelevant

From solar panels to biomass burners, boom in green initiatives seen as vital to achieving EU climate targets

Campaigners say community energy groups can help reduce country’s dependence on Russian fossil fuel

RIBA says scheme targeting efficiency and heating of older 20th-century housing could cut emissions by 4%

With government support, councils can lead the way in generating clean energy, insulating housing and reskilling staff

The units are expensive to install, and become less efficient at low outside temperatures, writes Gary Bennett. Plus letters from Frank Brown and Austen Lynch

Scheme that uses locally harvested woodchip to heat homes of retired sailors yields biodiversity benefits

Exclusive: firm also argued against heat pumps, which are proposed as a replacement for gas boilers

Smart, low-carbon homes were once the preserve of one-off grand designs – now there are up to 30,000 projects in the pipeline

Scheme will issue vouchers to just 49,000 people by end of March at current rate, analysis finds

95% of £1.5bn set aside to improve houses unspent due to slowness in making grants and paying installers