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 [...]
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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 »
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.
what is an ESCO?
Posted in chp, energy, engineering, ESCO, private wire, renewable energy, sustainability, zero carbon on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most people who work in the built environment agree that ESCO stands for Energy Services Company. But that seems to be the only thing about ESCOs that everyone agrees on – the term can mean vastly different things to different people. So what is an ESCO? The short answer is: there’s no one answer. Here’s [...]
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 [...]
nicholas stern’s blueprint for a safer planet
Posted in climate change, sustainability on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just listened to Nicholas Stern’s lecture at LSE on the train on the way home. It’s extremely interesting – have a listen if you haven’t already. Ricardo at XCO2e has posted a text summary here. A couple of things that rubbed the wrong way: I find it odd when scientists, agencies, economists, etc base [...]
construction crisis points to the future of green consultancy?
Posted in engineering, other stuff, sustainability, tagged downturn, guerilla consulting, small business networks on April 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Recently faced with a consulting job that we couldn’t do in time at Fontenergy, I called Nick Devlin. Nick and I had done a lot of this particular type of work together at XCO2 and I knew he would do a great job. Nick took on most of the burden. We collaborated online and by [...]
cookie speaks out
Posted in architecture, climate change, Code for Sustainable Homes, passivhaus, renewable energy, SAP, sustainability, utilities, zero carbon on March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I just received a very interesting comment from a “simple builder” about the regulatory maze. There are some interesting points in there. I don’t agree with all of them but I wanted to draw attention to them just the same: Sorry guys I just have to speak out. I speak as a simple Builder, we [...]
feed-in-tariffs could emulate European PV success – but at what price?
Posted in climate change, feed in tariff, sustainability, utilities, tagged Proven Energy, PV, quietrevolution on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A bunch of green bloggers got together last week after EcoBuild and as the pints slid down, the conversation got increasingly nerdtastic. It got so bad that drunken consultants were pulling out their laptops (never a good idea in the pub) and gesturing wildly at powerpoint slides as they slurred and babbled incoherently. Not naming [...]
2050: housing, heat, and how we’ll hit the target
Posted in biomass, chp, climate change, energy, engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, zero carbon on February 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the last post, I argued that we’ve got to strip the carbon out of almost all of our existing stock in order to hit the 2050 target. That’s a huge challenge. Phil Clark summed it up in a comment: I would consider it a near impossibility to upgrade every old leaky house without some [...]
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