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28 day rule is on holiday

Posted in energy, utilities, tagged , on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Prompted by a conversation Nick and I were having this morning, it’s worth pointing out that the 28 day rule originally brought in with NETA has been switched off on a trial basis. On the assumption that consumers are now more savvy and able to look out for themselves, it’s now possible to lock yourself [...]

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liquid biofuel CHP: officially renewable or not?

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, DER Calculation, SAP, agriculture, biofuel, biomass, chp, climate change, energy, engineering, london, renewable energy, stamp duty exemption, sustainability, tagged , , , , on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Love them or hate them, liquid biofuels are increasingly being put forward as a renewable fuel for CHP. Currently they’re eligible for ROCs and so appear to be considered renewable by BERR and OFGEM.
But when I spoke to the SAP team at BRE, not only did they confirm that liquid biofuels aren’t considered under SAP, [...]

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UKGBC: Boom! Take that BRE!

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, energy, engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, tagged , , , on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The UKGBC is launching plans for a Code for Sustainable Buildings to “address the confusion arising from the myriad of different green building standards.” Although they’ve used the name, this isn’t the same Code for Sustainable Buildings that we were promised a few years back and that was eventually pared down into the Code for [...]

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carbon and the credit crunch

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, climate change, energy, renewable energy, sustainability, tagged , , , , on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Developers are taking a hard look at their pipelines in an effort to find savings and many projects are grinding to a halt. Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Bovis, Barratts, Persimmon – each laying off thousands from their workforce. There’s no doubt that the credit crunch is taking a deep bite out of the construction sector. In [...]

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change from within

Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes on July 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »

I’m now an accredited Code for Sustainable Homes assessor. Is that a good thing? I’m not sure.

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