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local authorities must lead the way to low carbon

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, biofuel, biomass, chp, climate change, energy, engineering, london, renewable energy, sustainability, utilities, tagged , on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My first day back in London and I’ve spent the morning schmoozing at a publication launch just off the Mall. Five minutes out of my cattle stall and I’m already moving and shaking. It was an event to publicise the TCPA’s new document, Community Energy: Urban Planning for a Low Carbon Future, and it attracted quite [...]

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CHP and SAP – part II

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, DER Calculation, SAP, chp, climate change, energy, engineering, other stuff, sustainability, utilities, tagged , on March 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I’ve been spending some quality time with spreadsheets and have an update on the way building regs for housing treats CHP. It’s not as simple as I thought here, although the result is similar. The incorrect method I wrote about a few weeks back is still in use, but it’s different from what’s happening in SAP 2005. Here’s [...]

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Come on you blues

Posted in biofuel, biomass, climate change, energy, engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, utilities, tagged , , , on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Martin at isite has got in touch to urge us to wear blue on Earth Day (April 20th) to signify opposition to new coal.
We’re with you, Martin. Time to break out the body paint.

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Communal Wind Turbines and SAP

Posted in DER Calculation, SAP, climate change, energy, renewable energy, stamp duty exemption, wind turbines on March 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Following on from here, I have been chasing BRE & CLG to clarify the situation. The sorry response is that no-one was really aware of the potential implications of this piece of policy. So it’s official, at this point it is not possible to include the power output from communal on-site wind turbines, even where [...]

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…the weird turn pro

Posted in other stuff on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you take a look at our URL you’ll see we’ve moved from the wordpress address over to carbonlimited.org. Things have been going pretty well here at the blog and we thought we might tart ourselves up a bit in the interests of professionalism.
I understand from two London mates who just visited me in Italy that [...]

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60% by 2050? Only if we address existing housing

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, biofuel, biomass, chp, climate change, energy, engineering, london, renewable energy, sustainability, utilities, tagged , , , , , on March 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Today Lord Turner’s panel met for the first time to discuss a concrete strategy for fufilling the UK’s commitment to reducing emissions by 60% by 2050 (and to consider upping the target to 80%). With around a third of UK emissions coming from housing, this sector will inevitably play a key role in their strategy. [...]

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Communal Wind Turbines No Use for Zero Carbon Homes

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, chp, energy, renewable energy, stamp duty exemption, sustainability on March 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Communal wind turbines are currently of no use when trying to achieve Zero Carbon status for Stamp Duty Exemption. Here’s why…

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