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 the present [...]
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links for 2009-05-29
Posted in uncategorized on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
links for 2009-05-20
Posted in uncategorized on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 be happening with [...]
Jo doesn’t believe you can blog from the pub
Posted in uncategorized, tagged random on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
See?
more feed-in-tariff changes to Energy Bill
Posted in energy, feed in tariff, micro chp, other stuff, renewable energy, utilities, tagged Energy Bill, FiT on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There have been further amendments to the Energy Bill in the Lords in connection with feed-in-tariffs. The one year implementation deadline is back in. Excellent news as the detail of how FiTs are implemented will almost inevitably be bogged down in long discussions between government and power suppliers – a one year limit should focus [...]
good to be home
Posted in uncategorized on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Bit off topic)
incommunicado: whoops!
Posted in uncategorized on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t had any contact emails via the blog in a while so I checked to see if anything was wrong. Turns out the email account I was using had expired in May. Sincere apologies to anyone who wrote to us here at Carbon Limited and didn’t receive a reply. It’s all fixed now so [...]
BRE bashing
Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, sustainability, uncategorized, tagged BRE, BREEAM on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the second time that I have written this post, as I had not saved the first version and then browser magic lost it… I haven’t posted for a long time and wanted to avoid a negative post for my return, but unfortunately events have determined this otherwise.
Last week I undertook BREEAM for Offices [...]
hiatus
Posted in uncategorized on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not just not blogging. I’m also on holiday. Back to the office on the 22nd and looking forward to getting back into the swing then.
battle of the brands
Posted in uncategorized on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Phil was musing about whether his blogging activities might undermine his employer’s brand. On the topic of brand erosion, I’d like to point out that Bill Price, one of the Directors at engineers WSP, plays bass in a band called Wild Sex Party. Relatively speaking, I think you’re in the clear Phil – write whatever [...]
when a little is worse than nothing at all
Posted in uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to carbon from energy and the built environment, misdirected government measures (however good the intention) are now likely to do more harm than good. Eye-catching initiatives, if and when they fail, provide justification to cynics and people whose interests lie in maintaining the status quo. And more importantly the measures waste time [...]