Poyry – Potential and costs of district heating networks report Brilliant report. Pöyry finds that, where DHNs can achieve high penetration in built up urban areas, the carbon abatement costs of various district heating options are more cost effective than stand alone renewable technologies. But the report indicates that unless there is a shift in [...]
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The National Renewable Ammonia Architecture Spring 2009 | Stranded Wind A quickly evolving study into the requirements for achieving sustainable industrial agriculture using ammonia fertiliser Andris Piebalgs : it may have peaked. "When public office holders approach the ends of their terms, they sometimes feel less constrained by political correctness. That's precisely what seems to [...]
2013 comes two years early
Posted in climate change, energy, engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, zero carbon on May 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We’ve all seen the private development sector hit the skids over the past nine months. At the moment, the only residential projects that seem to be going ahead are those with a large RSL component (and so grant-funded by the HCA). This has a serious implication from a regs point of view because from spring [...]
a simplified financial model for CHP (or any LZC generation)
Posted in chp, energy, engineering, micro chp, renewable energy on May 14, 2009 | 14 Comments »
We engineers are great at estimating energy and carbon emissions and dealing with concrete systems: pipes, wires, flues – that’s our bag. One of the things we do poorly (but for some reason are too willing to do) is financial modeling relating to low and zero carbon generation. For the last couple of years I’ve [...]
new SAP
Posted in SAP on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, here we go! The draft version of the new SAP is out. This is it – the document that could assist or sabotage the whole move to low carbon homes. Have they sorted out the major issues? I almost can’t bear to look. [update 14/5: No, they haven't. All the more reason to respond [...]
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