Confidence of UK energy efficiency sector at lowest in four years

摘要

Supply-side confidence in the UK's energy efficiency sector has hit a four-year low. The latest issue of the UK Energy Efficiency Trends report (Volume 15, published at the beginning of June) shows confidence dropping in the first quarter of 2016 by four points, dipping into the red for the first time since publication commenced in 2012. High efficiency lighting suppliers can however take comfort from the report's consumer respondents as they highlighted a 14-point increase in the uptake of lighting technologies in Q1 2016 over the previous four-quarter average. The report suggests that supply-side confidence has declined predominantly from a fall in national orders and the government's management of energy efficiency policy.