Councils must take the lead on the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) if the strategies are to succeed, a report suggests, writes LocalGov.
Continue readingCouncils are essential to success of Green Deal, report finds
Come and see us at The Energy Event
Energys Group will be exhibiting its full range of low-carbon retrofit technologies at stand G34 of The Energy Event next week.
Continue readingGovernment sets energy efficiency targets for homes and businesses
The government has released amendments to Part L efficiency provisions on houses and businesses to lower energy bills and deliver “savings of £16m per year to business” and a 6.4 million tonnes drop in carbon dioxide, reports Utility Week.
Continue readingRotherham Council plans government-funded roll-out of retrofit T5 lighting to 50 schools
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is building on the success of Save It Easy® lighting upgrades at three of its schools. Using Salix funding, it is planning a rolling programme to extend the retrofit low-energy lighting to potentially more than 50 schools in the Rotherham area.
Continue readingEnergys welcomes new £100m funding pot for green retrofit
BRE along with partners Sustainable Development Capital Ltd have launched a new scheme to provide capital investment for non-domestic energy efficiency retrofit projects in the UK.
Royal Naval Station cuts its electricity use by 12,000 kWh per week through innovative lighting upgrade
Disruption to operations at one of the busiest airfields in the UK manned by over 4300 personnel cannot be undertaken lightly. When Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton, through Defence Estates, embarked on a challenge to reduce 10% of it’s energy on 10 bases in the SW supported by Debut Services Ltd, it selected as one of the measures energy-efficient lighting .The pressure was on to design an innovative retrofit approach with the proviso that the installation took place in the shortest possible time and with minimal operational disruption.
New Ofgem chairman set to be David Gray
David Gray has been named as the preferred candidate to become the next chair of Ofgem, reports Utility Week.
Continue readingGreen Investment Bank reports ‘positive’ first year
The Green Investment Bank committed £635 million to 11 low carbon projects in its first year, according to its annual report, writes Utility Week.
Energy efficiency upgrades could boost average home value by 14 per cent
The average home in England could see its value increase by £16,000 – or 14 per cent – through energy efficiency improvements new research by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) suggests, writes Greenwise Business.
The study, which investigated the effect of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) on house prices, shows that energy saving measures are likely to have the biggest impact on house prices in the North East of England.
Here, on average, a property’s value could increase by as much as 38 per cent if it’s EPC improved from a band G (not energy efficient) to an A or B (very energy efficient), according to the findings. In the North West, the value could increase by as much as 27 per cent.