Bath area firms will be able to access the latest advice and guidance to enable them to become sustainable when the region’s largest annual environmental exhibition returns next week. Staged by Bristol specialist business hub Future Leap at the city’s Paintworks creative hub on Bath Road, the Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition next Thursday, 15...
Sustainable power firm Good Energy is to be the headline co-sponsor of this year’s Chippenham Half Marathon as it strives to be the most eco-friendly so far. The 100% renewable energy company, which has its headquarters in the town, is also sponsoring the trophies and prizes. Good Energy entered a corporate team last year,...
A senior associate with Bath-based international landscape architecture practice Grant Associates has joined the panel of Design West, the organisation that brings together the best expertise from across the region’s built and natural environment sectors. Andrew Haines, pictured, is a highly accomplished landscape architect and Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute, who has served...
Green power group Good Energy is to ‘twin’ some of its business customers with a specific generator so they can better understand how their power consumption is fully matched by renewables. The Power Partners scheme links customers with one of the Chippenham-headquartered company’s 1,700-plus independent generators across the UK, which range from solar farms,...
On-site renewable energy generation is helping thousands of businesses to reduce costs, become more sustainable and gain long term energy security. If you’re considering solar power but are not sure where to start, this free breakfast webinar is a chance to hear from those who have already made the switch and get your questions...
Dairy company Coombe Castle has scaled up its operations to meet continued global demand for its cheese and clotted cream after being awarded a series of grants. The firm, based in Melksham, exports across the globe, including to Japan, Canada, the US and Hong Kong. Following bespoke support from membership team at Business West,...
Bath Building Society has become the first business in the city to host a tree nursery on its premises as it aims to plant 1,200 trees ahead of its 120th anniversary next year. The society, which has more than 20,000 savers and 1,200 mortgage customers, has teamed up with not-for-profit community organisation More Trees...
The University of Bath is to play a key role in a pioneering project to make clean hydrogen-fuelled buses a reality – helping support hundreds of jobs and saving millions of tonnes of CO2. The university and its Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), pictured, have been selected as strategic partners in the...
Wessex Water has outlined plans to triple investment in tackling storm overflows to £9m a month as part of the biggest shake-up of the sewerage network since the Victorian era. The Bath-headquartered firm has already invested £69m to protect the region’s rivers and beaches over the past year, including schemes to deal with heavy...
Good Energy, the 100% renewable electricity provider, has been forced to pay £1.25m after overcharging thousands of its customers on their bills. The Chippenham-headquartered group was found to be in breach of the government’s energy price cap by regulator Ofgem, which said it had overcharged just under 7,000 households a total of £391,650, or...
