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 [...]
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more feed-in-tariff changes to Energy Bill
Posted in energy, feed in tariff, micro chp, other stuff, renewable energy, uncategorized, utilities, tagged Energy Bill, FiT on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Think08
Posted in uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Nick and I were kindly asked by Phil Clark to speak at this year’s Think08. We thought long and hard and decided that I’ll be representing Carbon Limited (and Fontenergy) at the event while Nick schmoozes in the background. So I’ll be the Face Man to his B.A. so to speak. Or the Magnum to his Robin Masters. The [...]
heat meters are a no-brainer
Posted in climate change, energy, engineering, sustainability, uncategorized, utilities on April 10, 2008 | 10 Comments »
At work I’m helping a large housing association upgrade their existing heating networks to save carbon and reduce costs to occupants. There are various steps to take: upgrading boilers, re-insulating distribution pipework, considering CHP, and so on. But the single most effective thing you can do on these schemes is to install heat meters. Doing some background [...]
The Mandatory Code for Sustainable Homes…
Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, sustainability, uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There seems to be much confusion regarding the forthcoming status of the Code for Sustainable Homes. There are many references to Government making a Code assessment mandatory from April this year. But is this truly the case?
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