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Author Archives: Jonathan Balls
Local Energy Carbon Saving Public Sector (CSPS) November Events
Our November Carbon Saving Public Sector (CSPS) events are now fast approaching, and so we wanted to update a little further on the main areas we will be covering: Emissions reduction and forecasting – what is your emissions reduction target for this year? What are the most cost-effective ways of achieving reductions and how [...]
Tags: CSPS, events, Local Energy, schedule |
Local government gearing up for the Green Deal
When launched in autumn 2012, the Green Deal will enable households and businesses to improve the energy efficiency of their properties, without incurring up-front costs. While still in the process of drawing up detailed guidance for the scheme, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has made clear that they see local government playing [...]
Tags: assessors, DECC, energy efficiency, financing, Green Deal, local governmnet, providers, research |
Green Alliance publish ‘Climate Check’ report
The Think Tank Green Alliance last week launched their ‘Climate Check’ report, in collaboration with the WWF, RSPB, Greenpeace and Christian Aid. The intention of the report is to “provide a detailed analysis of the Coalition government’s progress against its low carbon commitments in a range of areas – international negotiations, electricity markets, energy [...]
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Week, Governmnet, Green Alliance, targets |
Inquiry looks at consumption-based emissions reporting
The Energy and Climate Change Committee last week launched an inquiry to investigate the case for consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions reporting in the UK. Introducing the inquiry, they report that while UK emissions have decreased since 1990, “it has been suggested that this is a result of the way that emissions are currently accounted [...]
Council solar/ PV schemes and equality legislation
An issue that arose during our July CSPS events, and has since been raised again, is whether the necessary selectivity of houses chosen for solar/ PV panel installation in council schemes could breach equality legislation. This is potentially a problem because of the significant financial savings in energy bills that tenants may enjoy where [...]
Tags: councils, equality legislation, insulation, PV, rent-a-roof, solar |
Survey on the cost of CRC auditing
As part of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC’s) efforts to simplify the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme, KPMG was appointed to conduct a survey of CRC participants on the administrative time and costs of CRC compliance. The survey, which is now closed, is to be used to help inform [...]
LEEF funding for public buildings in London launched
The recently established London Green Fund is currently in the process of launching the London Energy Efficiency Fund (LEEF), which has been gathered from several sources including the European Union’s JESSICA initiative (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment for Cities). The fund of up to £100 million is targeted for energy efficient retrofitting of public [...]
Tags: energy efficiency, EU, funding, JESSICA, LEEF, London, public sector, retrofitting |
UK Government’s draft Carbon Plan
The UK government is now committed to reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of 80% by 2050; with 5-year carbon budgets laying out a staged timetable of legally binding national reductions towards this deadline. The first three 5-year budgets have been released, mandating greenhouse gas reductions of 22% in the five year period to 2012, [...]
Tags: Carbon Plan, carbon reduction, energy, Government, legislation, local governmnet |
EU Energy Efficiency Directive consultation
In June this year the European Commission published the draft ‘Energy Efficiency Directive’, which is now open for consultation until the end of September. The draft legislation lays out the framework to achieve the EU’s target of 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020. Further details on the proposals and the consultation [...]
Tags: consultation, DECC, Energy Efficiency Directive, EU, local governmnet |
Local Energy’s survey on 2010-2011 CRC league table performance
At Local Energy’s July CRC events, there was a lot of concern amongst our delegates about how to manage the publication of their position on the CarbonReduction Commitment (CRC) league table this autumn; and around the amount of notice they would be given before publication. In response we set up a survey to allow [...]
Tags: CRC, DECC, Environment Agency, league table performance, survey |
