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Posted in uncategorized on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
back-pedalling CLG to set carbon compliance requirement at only 44%
Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, SAP, zero carbon on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve written about this before but in light of the Low Carbon Transition Plan launched last week, it’s worth reiterating: It’s increasingly clear that carbon reduction through on site measures will be set at 70% of regulated emissions. Sounds quite high. But in reality this equates to just 44% of total emissions – less than [...]
how good is PAYS?
Posted in architecture, engineering, utilities, tagged Pay As You Save, PAYS on July 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
PAYS (“Pay As You Save”) is getting a lot of airtime these days. Born in the US, it figured largely in yesterday’s low carbon transition strategy and the Government clearly hope it will take the pain out of the £10bn per year (or so) that needs to be spent on improving existing stock.
document mania – reading roundup
Posted in climate change, energy, feed in tariff, renewable energy, sustainability, zero carbon, tagged Ed Miliband, Lord Hunt, Low Carbon Industrial Strategy, Peter Mandelson, Renewable Energy Strategy, UK Low Carbon Transition Plan on July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Government launched a barrage of documents at us yesterday. I was mostly watching out for the Renewable Strategy but that was only a small part of it. Here’s the reading roundup: UK Low Carbon Transition Plan – this is the overarching doc. It’s basically the roadmap to meeting the legally binding carbon budgets from now [...]
renewable energy strategy is out!
Posted in uncategorized on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phew, I can finally stop hitting the refresh button on my browser. The long awaited Renewable Energy Strategy has just been posted on the DECC website. There goes the afternoon!
LCBP back up and running
Posted in biomass, feed in tariff, renewable energy, sustainability, zero carbon on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good news. As spotted by Tom N, the LCBP Stream 2 is back up and running with £35m of new funds (and a hefty backlog of PV, GSHP, and solar thermal projects that weren’t processed before the money ran out the last time). One lovely feature: the cap for heat technology has gone from 45kW [...]
biomass supplier database
Posted in biomass, renewable energy, sustainability, zero carbon, tagged biomass energy centre on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Biomass Energy Centre has launched a national woodfuel supplier database. A couple of websites have tried to do this over the years but this one is already fairly well populated and it looks like BEC mean business.
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